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 III
"The ones that abandoned you are not my son, it was Zack and Trini, that is the real reason you're so furious. They abandoned you when you needed them most, but you're right, just why get jealous when they're the ones in the wrong. They did this to themselves, all Ricky, Aisha and Adam had to do was just show up for it. Things change, they can not change back now." Alicia said and Nathan nodded in agreement to that.
"Ducktales quartet, and black is not one of the ducklings, the boys protected her all that time, but she is closest to the duo and my son is her soulmate. But the one that chose without thinking twice about it was Billy and Jason at the time. Half the Dino ranger team took both sides and the other took sides and this is none of their damn business. So she's got every right to be angry at you." James said sternly and Nathan nodded to that.
"Oh god, alright nice work you idiot, of us you're the one who broke his promise to her, why the hell didn't you come home. And I mean right now when I told you she was in the hospital at the time, you idiot, you realize what the hell you've done here right now. By trying to save yourself from a damn broken heart you just hurt her more. And more then anyone ever could, don't you get it, the remark that we used to use, when as kids here."
"Comes to the fore, but you remember that taunt, 'sticks and stone may break my bones, but words are the only thing that can hurt me.'. Well you just did that right now, you just hurt her more then anyone, including our enemies ever could right now Zack. But not just by your selfishness of trying to prevent yourself from a broken heart. And her love life, her love life is none of your damn business, Zack, but it's both this now, this."
"The silence and when she needed you the most right now, you're only thinking about yourself, but a power ranger is selfless, we only think about the greater good. And you're only think about yourself, but there is no we or us, in situations this personal. But her or me or him and me, if it's not our love life, then but out." Billy said sharply to him at that as he read the subtext of that as Jason crouched in front of her as he tested it then.
And pressed his forehead to hers, as it automatically intertwined at that, before Billy did the same and the strings of color were interwoven several times. "What's that one mean exactly?" Jamie asked and Adam explained that. "It means that the stronger the connection the deeper the bond, Billy's imprint to her is that of twins. But brother and sister, the more time spent together and the stronger the connection now."
"By keeping his promise, he just demonstrated the true connection that a Ninjetti has with a fellow Ninjetti and when said Ninjetti is sister, childhood best friend. Before the connection activates, Jason has that same connection to her. But Zack did enough damage to his, it's so loose that the strand is unraveling right now." he said to him firmly, before Zack tried as the amount of anger started growing in her at that response.
Seeing his strand slightly loose when tied with hers, he felt his heart start falling as he got the message. 'It's not Jason or Trini, it's me, all this time it's been me, it's me she's pissed at here. Why didn't I come home sooner, she needed me to keep her company, talk some sense into her to keep her from giving it up. Why didn't I come home 9 months ago, she needs me, why?!' he thought as he waited for her anger to hit her then.
"You guys are in the wrong, you never did anything like when you did for Tommy, so why, why shouldn't I be angry. But you're the ones in the wrong, why did you abandon me, why Zack, why?!" she said, shaking in anger and pain, abandonment that Billy started shaking as well as she buried her face into Billy shoulder. And as she felt the anger growing in her until she heard a loud bird screech as the cushion went flying at that.
"And now to top it off is you're trying to take sides, when they said to but out, just what is the matter with you, huh. Get the hint, you idiot, he has them with him all the time, she is on her own in a strange city. With who knows what dangers lurking around the corner, pack, she's a pack animal, Zack, what's the deal. Is the alpha all that matters to you two, huh, does it?!" Jason snapped at them and they paled at that as she thought it.
'Why was it Adam that was here this time for my collapse why wasn't it you Zack, why didn't you come back to talk me out of giving it up. Why didn't you come back when I got chosen, why didn't you answer my phone calls when I brought this up, why, why.' she start thinking as she closed her eyes as the anger shot through her as they heard a pained and furious bird screech as she pulled away from him as she looked at the trio.
Finally feeling the real pain she'd been feeling since the accident 3 years of anger shot through her then. 'Oh no, not only did the spell break on her, she's feeling every amount of resentment at this going through her then. Kim calm down or you're going to...' Tommy quickly thought as an explosion flew out of the pool then. "Whatever you're feeling, just say it Kim, I get it, but I'm not the one that broke his promise to you."
"I kept my promise, I chose you without thinking twice about it, our bond is still strong, because I kept my promise. Remember I kept calling you after you collapsed, though not physically present, you had me with you in spirit. I sent my stuffed version to you as a way to keep you company, when you asked for a second opinion regarding leaving. When you told me the truth of that letter you sent, I made sure I kept my promise now."
"I came back for you when you needed me most and though not physically present, I at least called you from Geneva so just say it and get it out of you. I'm not leaving you baby, I came back, I'm not leaving you hanging, I'm here, you need me I'm here. I'll always be here for you baby sister, I promise." Jason said gently as he pressed his forehead to hers and their colors tied themselves into a double tie to keep the link fused.
Before she gripped the back of his neck to keep his forehead against hers, as she started shaking in pain and anger as Billy crouched on the floor and repeated that firmly as he got it in what promise they made then. "It's okay, it's okay, I made and kept my promise I'm not leaving you hanging, I'll always be there for you, I promise. I'll always be with you, I'm never letting you go, I promise, I'll never leave, I promise Kimmy, it's okay."
"Just get it out of you, baby, just say it, just say it sis." he said to her, and she gripped his neck to keep their colors fused as the last bit of anger shot through her and she looked at Zack as she felt the rage shoot through her. As she laid into him as 2 years worth of anger shot through her and a blast came flying out of the pool. "If you never wanted to leave, then why didn't you fight harder when I told you that Zack, huh, why?!"
"Was it the easiest choice to make it retirement, that you didn't want to put up with the job. That you thought I was ready to go it without you, what exactly you guys, did I really not mean that much to you. Was I not worth fighting for in your eyes, you keep the connection together, did you not get the message right now in this. The only way that they can destroy us, is not themselves that do it, but by you doing the damage."
"And you did, my wings were broken when you left, I couldn't fly in a straight line, because you kept me going, do you not get that. I'm a pack animal and half of my pack is gone now, and one wing is broken as a result. Do you know how many nights I spent crying myself to sleep when you left, all I wanted was for you to come home. And put us back together, even last year during the accident, that's all I wanted, in fact you two."
"Yes I had Tommy, and Billy, and Jason, but what about you, you think that just having the damn candles was enough to make us lose our powers. What about this, that having them disconnect the link between us and our animals. Without our animals, we have no powers, without us they're turned completely into flesh and blood animals. And yet of the two of us, I'm the one that's suffering the come down from hell at the moment."
"You want the real reason I'm this pissed at you guys since you been gone, and why I turned to them so fast, huh do you. Well it's this." she said, shaking in pain then as she let them have it firmly. "You say you're jealous they were here for me when you weren't, well what about this, why didn't you come back when Zedd got his hands on me. And when I was chosen by my coach, what about the fact that if you were here now."
"You'd have been there to protect me from Anderson as he tried it again and attacked me in the locker room. And before Derek and Jared jumped him and he was arrested for a second time. What about the fact that when I needed some added help, regarding training and when they needed added help now. That I had you guys there to recharge me so I wouldn't be so exhausted as I suddenly have five battles in one day here."
"What about the fact that if you were here, you'd be there to prevent me from falling off the damn thing again, that you could talk me out of giving it up. And when they were working out how to get my power coin back. Why weren't you here keeping me company, and what about the decision to leave, huh what about that. What about when I needed your reassurance regarding this choice, why didn't you answer my phone calls."
"In these last nine months, Billy did, but you didn't, it's like you turned your back on me, why didn't you contact me regarding, or come back in this situation..., why." she said as she started shaking in pained anger as she finished. "Did you honestly think I didn't need you anymore, well you're wrong, I do, I need you and so what. So what if you guys were retired, at least I had you when my powers were this weak and with it went pre ranger."
"If I had you in my sudden pre ranger career, after my power coin was stolen, you were there to protect me from Jared after he tried to attack me in the damn locker room. You were there to catch me from falling off the damn thing, keep me company. And when the sextet and Kat were getting my power coin back, talk me out of giving it up. Were there to join me in Miami so I had you three always with me right now until I came home."
"You say I didn't need you at the time, well you're wrong, I did and I still do, so why didn't you come back when I needed you the most. So answer that why don't you, why didn't you come home when I needed you most. Billy told you I know he did, so why didn't you come back when I needed you most." she said as she finished it crying. "Why did you leave, you shouldn't have left, I want you back." she said, shaking in pain then.
As she slumping in front of the trio. "You don't get it Zack, the empathy link between me and Jason just activated, he kept his promise, made it clear now. That he'd always be there for me if I needed him, Billy he did the same, Tommy and I. We put our relationship back on course, but that the punchline for the song we chose. Once in a lifetime means that there's no second chance, so I really do believe, you and me, should grab it."
"And while we can, make it last forever and never give it back, it's our turn and I'm loving where we're at, because this moment is really all we have.'. Translation, we don't get many second chances to fix things and take back a choice and fix our bond. And when it's on the edge of falling apart at the time as we'll to. But the entire gang took back the original choice of long distance relationships and bonds, but you though."
"You don't get it, do you, that song could be pointed another way, but it's not the love of my soulmate that feels like it's on the edge breaking here. No it's another, but Jason returned my calls for the previous 18 months before he chose going Ninjetti to keep us together. But the real pain, it's pointed directly at you, Zack, don't you understand this, you may not have imprinted on my as my soulmate, but that doesn't mean you didn't."
"But you did, and as the first two pieces of our connection, but I can't, I can't wait any longer, you been gone so long and I've tried Zack, believe me. I waited as long as I could for you to come home, to put us back together, I tried to keep it up in the long distance bonds. But I can't, I can't do this anymore, I want you to come home, I miss you so much, I just want you to come home now, Zack." she said through her crying to him.
Looking at her, Zack felt his heart rip apart at the tirade as Peter stood up at that the news. "If it's not the damn letter, then what is it exactly Zack, he came back or kept calling me before and after my power coin. But what about you. Zack and when, was it that you never wanted to share me, and me specifically, instead of all 3 of us. You say I matter to you and yet you never came back when I ended up back in the E.R., here."
"Why didn't you come back when I needed you the most, just answer that, tell me the truth, why didn't you come back when I needed you the most at the time, why exactly?" she said, looking at him in pain. "Look the guys had this talk already and you know what we realized, it's the very same thing. But we took back that decision now, he's still mine, but it's the very same three questions." she said and he looked down at that news.
"What if I never let you go, would you be the man I knew when we were kids growing up, but the reverse in the wording, it could be pointed in two directions. Tommy and I realized that, we fixed our relationship, but you, I tried for close to three years, but I had to draw the line. It's not Tommy, it never was, not Tommy, not Jason, not even the guys, it's you, you said you imprinted on me in the way of a brother, my best friend, Zack."
"It's not them, it never was, and it's not Trini, it's you, all this time it's been you, my best friend, my brother, our bond is that if the first two stages and like he imprinted on me. As did you, but you left me, don't you get it, Zack, that anger I felt during that situation, all this time it was pointed at you at the time here now. You weren't here when I needed you most, every time I lost my balance you were there to catch me, for the first time."
"For years, every time I was so fatigued from my training when in training, I had you there at my side, you even protected me from Jared Anderson. I had you acting like the brotherly cop, always there when I needed you most at the time. And you were and for 10 years you were there watching my back, protecting me when I needed you too. You were there to catch me when I needed you too, being there for me all this time now."
"When on the balance beam, and I messed up a move and lost my balance and you were there catch me, always there, but for the first time. And in 12 years, you're not there to catch me like you used to and he was, like when I woke up in the hospital. The fact I had you there by my side in 10 years, at my side, you promised me. So why didn't you keep your promise, now when I needed you the most now, that's why I reached my limit."
"I can't do it anymore, I tried, I tried to keep a long distance bond with you, but I can't anymore and I drew the line. And that question's spinning in my mind for nearly 3 years, those same questions, 'you see I tried but I had to draw the line, and still that question keeps on spinning in my mind, what if I never let you go. Would you be the man I used to know.'." she said and he swallowed at that as he read out the questions to her.
"If I stayed, if you tried and we could turn back time, I guess we'll never know now, and that's what hurts so much. I lost you, because I didn't try harder to fight the selection process, if you never let me go, I..., I'd still be the me you know, your brother. But it's not her that hurts so much it's you, she's not my imprint, you are." he said as the tears started pouring down his face, as she wiped hers away then as she answered him.
"I love you, I always did, I'd never let you go, not that fast, so long as any girl that broke your heart tests me. They had to get my approval and pass my evaluation to be with you, you're my brother and like Billy, you imprinted on me in the same way. And that of my brothers, my best friends. Zack, there's 2 reasons I'm so angry at you and 1) is that after I lost my power coin, Jared Anderson was back on the prowl and he tried it again."
"Again in the locker he tried it in the again, but it's this time the one that took your spot was Jared, when I ended up the hospital, instead of finding you next to me, it's Tommy. Instead of you sitting there with me to keep me company, it's Kat, instead of you talking me out of giving my chance at this once in a lifetime opportunity it's Adam. Instead of you being there to give me a second opinion it's Adam again, but though I love him."
"I need you, our bond, you're my best friend, my brother, though not the imprint of my soulmate, you're my best friend. But while he was here for me you weren't, to me, that's what hurts so much here, I needed you there to keep me company like you used to. For 10 years you were the to catch me, when I collapsed from exhaustion." she said and he swallowed in pain as he answered her as he felt his heart breaking at that remark.
"And for the first time, I'm not there now, that's why you're so pissed at me, I wasn't there like I used to be, always there when you needed me. From confidence explanations, to song writing, there to catch you in case you missed a step in training. Or even there to protect you when you needed me, I wasn't there for it now. And in 2 years since I left, and you're furious at me for that." he said sadly and she nodded to him.
"You didn't lose me, the connection is fraying, but it didn't tear completely we can fix this, but we have to get it on the table, now. But that's why I'm so ticked at you right now, Jason and I snapped our connection back into place. You've been avoiding me ever since I sent the damn thing, Zack, you're my brother. I could never let you go. Either of you, but where matters of the heart are concerned, it's not us and we right now too."
"It's me and him, or her and me, it's not your love life, so stay out of it right now, but you know what hurts so much, I don't have that type of imprint with you, Zack. But that's what hurts so much, you're a pack animal, as is Trini, as am I, we're pack animals. But I have 3/4's of our team at my back, along with Curt, Rick and the quintet. Hang on, Zordon, get the seven and bring them here." she said and in answer to that remark.
The seven beamed into the room as they saw her crouched on the floor in front of Zack and Curtis nodded with a sigh. "You just let the duo have it for taking sides in this situation guys?" Jamie asked and they nodded. "You mean you know now, or are you just guessing, regarding who we are?" Jason asked and she explained that. "It hit us after after we caught Angela with Barnes as your theme song came out over your watches."
"Taking several guesses, Adam asked us if we know and we were taking guesses, before they confirmed to us in who you are, before they confided to us. Into the reason they were this distracted right now, but she had to tell us, and the quintet first. Just before she told you three and Aisha because we were with him, Curt's also family. And us girls created a girl group after you left, Jason." Angie said and he nodded to her with a sigh.
"That's why she's resented you two this much, she's heard from us all more then once in the last nine months, but you two. It's like you turned your back on us, your friends, your gang, even your cousins, with you being out of town for close to three years. She never has to say it, because we're her own kind, Ninjetti and I know why, it's because we bonded even more tightly since you left." Zane Tanner added to him and they nodded.
"To us we don't have to hear the words, she's beyond lonely out there on her own, the world is beyond scary and she can't count on herself. But she's a pack animal, she misses her flock, her nest and she wants to return to the nest. But this issue of taking sides is ripping her apart right now at the moment and with that in mind now. That's why she had decided to bend the rules so she could spend several hours a day at home."
"But she didn't have to tell us the truth, because we saw their colors in a power blast of fireworks. While they heard your theme song come out over your communicators, you two and with that in mind. Dad, Uncle Peter don't say anything, she right, for the first time in 10 years and though Jason kept his promise, Zack didn't, it's not Jason or Trini. It's Zack, he made a promise, and he was there for her, from the time we were kids."
"So don't, don't say it, not now, she's been holding it in since they left, 3 years separation she hasn't heard from them in two years. And though she's been lonely without the trio, but like Tommy, he also imprinted her, they need this right now. She's pissed at him for abandoning her when she needed him most, but he was there to catch when in training, but he wasn't there too now." Jamie said sharply to their parents.
And the adult quintet nodded in agreement as Nathan and Billy sighed. "He's right, though I was here for her latest collapse and hospitalization, they weren't. But Zack was always there to catch her when she was on that damn thing. But he wasn't there now, he wasn't to catch her when she collapsed, wasn't there when she woke up. And he's not there keeping her company right now, talking out of giving up her gymnastics."
"Wasn't there to give her a second opinion about leaving for Miami and he never answered her calls over this. In taking this jump, regarding setting things on hold and she's furious at that. With me active, I couldn't keep her company and she was lonely at the time in that 2 week basis. And Kat and I barely managed to prevent her giving it up. By Kat overcoming her fears of being on the high dive and that helped in this."
"But to Crane, she needed all of us to over come her fear of being on the balance beam and it's by either staying here and she had them when we also had our powers go dormant. Or two, it's by the trio going with her to Miami and she still had them with her, but that's it." Billy said and Zack covered his mouth at his short sidedness in being called out then, looking at the duo sitting in front of her, Trini rested her hand on her shoulder.
"Why did you leave, if we bothered to debate this we wouldn't be having this problem, since you left. I've been trying to stay focused, but seeing them in your colors, in your spots. I've missed you so much, I just want you to come home, in fact I just want to come home period. This decision to leave has been nothing but a mistake, I can't focus, I have you guys in my head all the time." she said, and he nodded to her softly at that.
"In fact that song he chose goes both ways, I have you ten in my head all the time. My friends at the training center are talking behind my back. Everybody is always talking at me, everybody is trying to get into my head. I want to listen to my own heart talking, I need to count on myself instead. And that's that part, I can't do, I don't know how to go it alone anymore, because I was raised in a quintet, being in a sextet as Rangers."
"He and I are suffering the very same problem here, I can't go it alone anymore, I don't know how, I was raised in a pack, I'm a pack animal. And the only thing I wanted, that I needed, is to see you guys, seeing you there when I practice, being the listening ear when I needed you most. And most of all keeping me company when I suffered a repeat performance, that's all I want, I miss you guys, I want you back, when I come home."
"Either we came back together or I came to you as we did this every day, every weekend, summers, holidays and so forth. I don't care which, all I want is to have you three watching my back, us back together like it was before you left." she said sadly to him. "That's all of it now, you're furious we never came back when they did to you what they did to him?" Zack said to her softly and she nodded as Jason went to the next.
"It's not out of sight, out of mind in your case is it, you wish the same thing we do, we could turn that clock back around so its us again, right?" Jason asked and she nodded as the tears started falling down her face as she wiped her eyes as she told him the truth. "Though we claim that they took your spots completely, that's a lie in my case, Jason, it always was, I know you guys had this rivalry with Tommy over me that first year."
"I always did, you guys were there at my side from 10 to 14, 10 years and it's hard for you, because you guys, Billy and Curt were the only men in my life growing up. But you weren't letting me have my heart broken when Tommy started. But he's been jealous of both of you of the way we were together, because he thought you were my boyfriend. Jason, and the sudden rivalry between him and you, Zack, was the added problem."
"As time went on and you guys met other girls now there was finally a balance as you and Trini got together, before Angela gave him a chance. As you accepted Tommy was now the one for me finally, but the last 18 months. That was the start of the added trouble, and I needed you when it really mattered and thought not there physically. You kept me company, in spirit, but you came back, you came back, answered my calls now."
"But though not there physically, you at least were there for me when I needed you most, either by my being laid up in the hospital. Saying, like Billy, I shouldn't quit, and give it up, take this one chance at a lifetime to go to the Pan Globals. And when I was trying to consider my ranger duties now you even said, like him. To protect myself from it happening again now, it's time for retirement now, and then comes the letter now."
"You remember what you said?" she asked and he nodded as he repeated it. "If you need me, I'm there, I'm back, you need me and I'm back, I won't leave you. I promise I won't leave, you can count on me, I'll always be there for you." he said and she nodded as she pressed her forehead to his and their colors intertwined as she answered him. "Yeah, but you kept your promise, you kept your promise and came back, you came back for me."
"But as you kept saying you're my boys and of five, the ones that kept their promise are you and Billy. But that's what hurts so much, if he never wanted to leave then why didn't he fight harder in the selection process at the time. But for ten years, I had you guys there to catch me when in training, at my side always, but not now, now when I needed him most, but in truth, we may have gotten the lives scared out of us regarding Tommy."
"But in my case, it's not the act of my powers this time, it never was, it's the act of suffering a repeat of my childhood hospitalization. And this time the only one here for it was Billy, when I needed you most, if you were here I had you keeping me company. And while they were getting Brennan and my power coin back here. But regarding the choice of leaving home, that's what hurts so much now and here it is now at the moment."
"In everything regarding that nine months ago, I never told the trio, or Kat that truth, that this wasn't the first time I ended up in the emergency room. Though Billy did, with the sextet trying to get my power coin back I was completely lonely. Because without you there keeping me company now, I didn't have anyone to talk to at the time. No one who understood my possible decision to quit and talk me out of it at the time here."
"When I was chosen it was a choice between leaving home and everything I knew or beginning a fresh start. But the reason they suggested this was so they could protect me from Zedd and Rita. If you were here I wouldn't need that, I return to my old life, before I became a ranger it goes back to a quintet again. After Billy learned that truth, he wasn't alone, the last of our quintet and neither was I, because we had you back again."
"Nothing could take your place, best friend, older brothers, though I had Billy, I just wanted my entire childhood quintet back. Like you said though they understand in some ways, they don't in others, and this happens to be a big one. I know you hated dad since he was the catalyst, to you I was what mattered most now. If anyone would come for me, if I was next to get converted it's both trios at once and with that in mind now."
"And I never wanted to leave, he's all I had left, my boyfriend and the last piece to my childhood quintet is here, which explains it. 'Here I stand alone with this weight upon my heart, and it will not go away, in my head I keep on looking back, right back to the start. And wondering what it was that made you change, you see I tried, but I had to draw the line, and still that question keeps on spinning in my mind, 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.'. And that's the point of this song right now and in truth it's not just them I have in my head all the time, it's you three. I hate them, Rita and Zedd for what they did to him, and the committee for taking you away. If you refused when it came time for you to retire I had you looking after me now at the time."
"And to answer your question, those ten years did count for something, more than you think and every time I see them dressed in your colors. I just wanted you back, watching my back, us together like we always were, a quintet, a team, I want my family back. I just want things to go back to the way they were, before you left. I had both of you, but though they're here, I wish you were as well." she said and the trio nodded to her softly.
Pulling her into a hug she buried her head into Zack's neck as he tightened his arms around her. 'Don't leave me, I can't lose you again.' he heard and hid a nod as she hugged him. "What's happening here?" Erica asked and Preston sighed as he said it. "Last time it was our children that were at her side when she ended up at the hospital and this time was the trio and Kat, 18 months to 2 years now regarding this."
"And though Billy was here, they weren't and she's resenting that fact they never came home immediately when she collapsed off the damn thing. To her, them talking her out of leaving meant she had all of our kids to come home to. But regarding that letter, if anyone could understand why she sent it immediately it would be my son and the duo. We've known her longest out of the nine of us involved in this situation."
"And with Carrie out of town, she needed our support and reassurance just to end this issue of guessing and second guessing herself now." he said and the duo nodded as the original adult trio watched their childhood baby quintet together. "Though they say we can't understand, it's they're the ones who can't. Because they're not the ones suffering an emotional breakdown when you were 7, baby." Peter said to Kim for his son softly.
Turning to him at that, she moved to him and he pulled her into a hug as he felt her arms wrap around his neck then. "It's okay, it's okay, shh." he said softly then as he rocked her. "She can't count on herself anymore, out on her own, the world is beyond scary now, because all her life she was a pack animal. Being separated from the pack, our team, she's beyond lonely right now." Zack said with a sigh and they nodded to that remark.
Looking at Peter and Jennifer holding her as she got it out of her then Trini and Aisha exchanged looks and sighed. "That's the resentment alright at the moment, though they never showed it regarding our double's. I knew if she needed anyone with the boys and four of us busy with working this out." she said and Kim nodded as she finished that. "Yeah and if I answered the damn phone we'd have come back then and stayed put."
"And while with her with us, this damn letter wouldn't be such a problem right now, because we'd have read the damn thing over her shoulder. And like Carter would give her the advice and support she needed. Before the four of us returned and we put our team in one piece and head this off before it even starts now." Trini added and she nodded. "Yeah that's exactly the problem, I had both trios, my quartet here, my quartet there."
"It was the trio, it always was now, guys though I'm glad you came to get my power coin back. With you busy doing that I had no one to talk to, as Billy told you I've been doing this since I was five, but for 9 years they were the ones who were keeping it up in preventing my over doing it when training. If you saw the reaction Billy was showing towards Coach, he was afraid this would result in another lawsuit at the time."
"But coach saw it immediately and immediately decided to slow it down in case I did collapse right in front of him. And he never left my side either, like we said he over heard my conversation with the quintet regarding my powers. Realized why I was this weak and decided not to rush things regarding my training, and he was acting more of the father. Then Ken ever did when it came to training, but that's the entire thing."
"Make one change and everything else changes in the process, had it not been for trip back to the past, you'd be the ones who are the children of the first ever created sextet. And our souls searched each other out, but that's exactly the problem, if it hadn't been for the green candle. Zedd choosing them and sending that cactus monster into our town's past, everything we were to each other would still be, is that it, Zack?"
"To you, as we spent our entire lives together, and this just made you want to change it back, had we known where this would lead when we took on these powers. You just want things to change back, because as the top six students in school. We were giving up everything we were just to protect the greater good. And to you, if we could rewind things, so you just declined and you'd be here when I lost mine, that would be it now."
"And I had the six of you, two versions of the very same colors and to you, it's the act of regretting ever making that choice and you wish you could take it back, for me?" she said and Zack nodded to her. "Yeah that's it exactly, so what if she cheated on me, if she wasn't who I was meant to imprint on that's fine. But you, you're my best friend, my sister, ten years and I always had you at my back, your encouragement, your trust."
"Being the listening ear when I needed you, from year one to when I left, and even the time when we were dealing with Quagmire. And trying to get off the island of illusion when I was the first to suffer that. You knew if there was anyway I'd be able to fight through it that it's because you knew me better then I know myself. Three months apart in age maybe, but to me, you always were my little sister, you understood me."
"You knew my biggest fears, my self doubts, and everything else, to you, it was why should I bother with those losers who were acting like a bunch of Socs. My dad is narc, that's fine, if they wanted to treat us like a bunch of outsiders then the hell with them. We don't need them, we had each other, it's always been like that to you, for ten years, and suddenly the selection and Zedd take that away from us and with it now here."
"It's when we were 13 and were chosen as power rangers, we were 7th graders and about to go into the biggest change of our lives. But a gang became a team as a quintet and a quintet became a sextet. Before we learned there was one sure way of losing our powers and it's the candles. But I didn't realize that by disconnecting the connection between us and our animals would do it or the loss of our power coins did it as well."
"Or even the act of our power coins ending up in the hands of evil, I never knew any of this, because since your mother transferred to Paris, I never got any of that news. And frankly just hearing that this, all of this, has put you back in the hospital. That the duo decided on the very same decision we had for him. I wished I came home after the bastard got his hands on you at the time." he said to her softly at that and she nodded.
"Aw crap, first it's your collapse when we were seven and again regarding Anderson before I came home from my uncle's cabin. And this, whatever it is, is grabbing the fear and anger of your lives, before the quintet came into the picture here Kim and with it. You and Billy may have connected to the duo, and Rocky. But to them everything you went through, before and after we met just broke down the front door here."
"To him, it's not just one thing or another, but three things before and after we met that are scaring the heck out of him." Tommy said and she nodded to him as she answered him. "That's why we hadn't heard from you, since we took on these powers, that you were pissed here. That Adam and Aisha were there trying to get my power coin back, after I ended up on the sidelines, and you weren't, guys?" she said and he nodded to her.
"Yeah, I mean if I hadn't left, we'd be the ones keeping you company while the quintet and Kat were trying to get it back and when you collapsed. We'd be the ones keeping you company as we, together, told her the truth regarding Tommy. But this time, instead of being here, sitting at your side till you woke up finally, we weren't, they were. And that's why I'm jealous, he took the spot I once I had with you, I gave you that stuffed lion."
"When we were 7, whether we knew it or not what our primary animals were at the time, but I felt like I was the lion king, you were my best friend since we were Cubs. To me, before we gained our powers you always were all that mattered to me and that's why I'm pissed here. In my eyes last year, till Rita came back and married him, that I should have been here for you when you lost your powers, that I was the one sitting at your side."
"I knew your every fear and desire because though I wasn't your exact match, you're my omega, you're my entire world. But it's we should have been the ones who were trying to get your power coin and Brennan back. We should have been the ones who saw you collapse off the damn thing, we should have the ones who were at your side. When Tommy told us to stay with you when you felt like you did before you collapsed."
"But we aren't, ten years and Zedd, Ivan, Rito and the peace talk selection process takes that all away from us here. But that's it, in every single one of these, when you, Billy and Tommy knew what was wrong here with them just starting out at the time. To us, with the quintet on duty, you had us at your back, you weren't alone anymore. Because like Tommy and his loss of powers, hearing you had a second collapse of the balance beam."
"It's we should have the ones that were here when Ivan got released, when Rito showed up and when you suffered the same come down he did. And knowing you were getting weaker every minute, but we weren't and we aren't. And that's why I'm so jealous right now, you mean everything to me, you're my best friend, I love you. Though they say we can't understand, they're not the ones who saw you collapse when we were Cubs."
"They're not the ones who suffered two weeks of living hell because your system impacted and crashed after being overly worked. They're not the ones who nearly lost their powers by the very same thing in which Tommy lost his. And Rocky is not the one who channeled 80% his strength to bring us back to full. No matter what they say, they can't understand those 18 months here, before and after Tommy joined the team."
"God knows it been one too many close call as, and you're my entire world, Adam can't understand that, because he hasn't been with you and known you as long as I have. You're my entire world, my sister, my omega, I can't lose you and I won't, I'm not ready to just share you, not yet, I still need you." he said to her sadly as he pressed his forehead to hers as she looked into his eyes and she nodded as she got it.
"It's not enough that we'd just gained five new members of the team, followed by learning Billy and you are suffering from the very same thing we are. But for 10 years, I always had you and Jason as my best friends, and the duo my brother and sister. That seeing you meet Adam, I was still feeling the protective side of me. That I wasn't ready to start sharing you specifically, because for ten years it was always you and me here."
"And suddenly the connection shifts here to the point I feel our bonds fraying and just one wrong move or word. Spoken out of anger, of hate, and I hate Zedd for taking you away from me, I hate the selection committee for taking me away from you. That I just want to turn that clock back to the beginning. And just before Tommy became the white ranger, I just want you back." Zack said to her, as he looked from her to Billy and back.
"Had it not been for Rita taking away my powers you wouldn't be holding this much resentment at the trio. Because you were always there for her since we were seven, and things, in your eyes, were just fine until Zedd came into the picture. And I drained the last drop that you hate them, the selection committee, Zedd and Rita for taking her and Billy away from you, is that it." Tommy asked and they both nodded to him sadly then.
"That's the resentment now, you guys, the three of you are jealous that all this time it wasn't you here when it happened again and I was the hospital for two weeks. It was them, and though Jason snapped the connection he has with me back into place. You're feeling the anger and resentment at your replacements. And it's that they took the spots you once had with me, after my childhood hospitalization." she said and the duo nodded.
"Guys listen to me carefully right now, but did you ever consider what could have been, the what ifs of your leaving whatsoever and what would happen when you did now?" Kim asked and they shook their heads. "Well that's what we were talking about, before your parents figured it out. But think about it a second: for the first time in 10 years you're on your own, feeling the loneliness of being separated from us at the moment."
"But in your hearts you were looking back to the start when the six of us came together just after we freed Tommy from the spell, right guys." Billy said to them and Trini nodded as Kim said it gently. "Here I stand alone with this weight upon my heart, and it will not go away." Kim said and Zack collapsed into the couch cushion. "In my head I keep looking back, right back to the start and wondering what it was that made you change."
"You see I tried but I had to draw the line and still this question keeps on spinning in my mind. What if I never let you go, would you be the person I used to know, if I stayed, if you tried and if we could turn back time, but I guess we'll never know." he said, finishing the lyrics as he looked at her as he gently stroked a hand through her hair. Seeing the love and pain his eyes she wrapped her hand around his then as he looked at her.
"That's the hard part now, you and I did the lyrics to whatever song you created and this was the one, now, that was ripping me apart here. But he's right, things were just fine till Rita created that green candle, we were adjusting to being back as a group of five. And the following year leading into the selection process after Zedd kidnapped them and we got chosen, I've been going over all of this in my head since Ivan and Rito arrived."
"For two years and I'm wondering what changed and when exactly, you know I never wanted to leave and let you go. We did our best at trying to keep it up, but somewhere along the lines things changed and I don't know what I have to do to get them to change back." Zack said to her as he looked at her as she saw the amount of pain in his eyes at that and they nodded to him gently as she answered him softly as she looked at him.
"It's not just me you're scared to death of losing right now, is it?" she asked and he shook his head. "If I refused, I'd be the one at your side when you were in recovery from that collapse, with us retired from the battlefield, we'd be the ones taking care of you until they lost theirs finally and turned into the Zeos. Until we figured out how we could all be a single team again, Kim I've missed you so much, I never wanted to let go."
"But that's why you haven't heard from me since the accident, I'm scared out of my mind that it's going to put you back in the hospital. Because once when we were kids was enough, I can't take it twice, Billy was here with you, I wish I was. Last year when Billy told me what happened, I just barely had a heart attack and I'm scared out of my mind here regarding this after what you told us regarding Bulk and Skull."
"That somethings going to happen to you and I'm not here or in Miami to prevent it, I mean I was ready to beat the crap out of him for touching you like that at the time. But the thought of it happening when we're separated, especially if Anderson is back on the prowl or some parasite in your gym tries it now. That I'm not even here for you to call on and you come home looking like your wings were clipped, but that's all of it now."
"Why I'd even bother leaving at the moment, if we were still here it would be the ten of us. And we, somehow, would figure out how to get your powers back up to full, because I'm scared out of my mind I'm going to lose you. And with that they may think I don't understand, but then they're not the ones that dealt with it. When they were seven here, and saw you collapse once, but this, I can't take it." he said, shaking and she nodded.
"There's the remark on the movie, take good care of her, you'll never know how precious she is, that friendship, until you lose her. At the moment that's our biggest fear, we nearly did lose her when they stole her power coin. And then tried to break her connection to it." Kat said and Kim sighed. "And I know you're thinking this, but if Fire gets released, when she, Shal and I combine together, that's when I tap into my powers."
"All of them." she said and the adult Ninjetti exchanged scared looks. "Whoever causes thst to happen it could be five years from now 10 or even 15. And the connection between us is so strong that losing you is like they tore our hearts out." Dillon said, his voice shaking in fear at losing his adopted daughter as he exchanged scared looks. And with the rest of the guys in his team as the quintet did the same then quickly.
