A/N: I don't own anything but the plot. I'm glad that everyone is enjoying this story so far and I hope that you will like this chapter.
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The rangers appeared in the Power Chamber seconds later to see Billy and Aisha standing up holding onto the control panel. "What's wrong with you?" Jason asked as they powered down. He was worried about the fact that when Kim appeared half of the rangers had been bought to their knees without her doing anything. This was not good news.
"We don't know only that when Kim showed up at the beach we fell down in pain." Aisha explained to them as Billy nodded without looking up. He had started scans when Kim had appeared and he wanted to know what they revealed.
"They did too." Zack said pointing to Tommy, Rocky, and Adam.
"Rangers I fear that its because of Kim showing up in Ninjetti robes. She has somehow reconnected with the crane." Zordon said as everyone looked up at him. They were not quite sure how Kim could do that.
"How? Those powers were destroyed and Kat was the last holder of the crane anyway." Jason said trying to piece everything together. "Kim handed over her power coin to Kat."
"Kat was the last holder but the crane was always Kimberly's. She just entrusted Katherine with it." Zordon explained. "I believe that Kimberly has tapped into her dormant powers, which means that she doesn't need her power coin."
"But she was in red ninjetti robes not pink." Kat said as Trini nodded, that part was very confusing. Kim had always been the Pink Ranger.
"Guys, I ran scans of Kimberly once she landed at the beach and she has more evil flowing through her than Goldar, Rito, and Scorpina combined. Zedd has created another Evil Ranger and its Kimberly." Billy stated as all eyes looked to Tommy.
"Are you serious?" Zack asked remembering Tommy as the Evil Green Ranger and it had not been fun.
"Very much." Billy replied. "I am sorry, Tommy but Kim has been turned evil." He said rubbing his eyes.
"I won't destroy her." Tommy whispered before teleporting out of the Power Chamber in a red streak. He was gone before anyone could stop him.
"What does he mean by that?" Tanya asked in confusion. She had never faced an Evil Ranger and didn't know what they had to do or where to even start.
"If we can't turn her back then she must be destroyed like Zedd and Rita. Kim is currently showing more evil power than I have ever seen." Billy said as Jason groaned. He knew what that meant. "She is at least stable for the moment though." He revealed.
"Okay we are all tired and this news is not the best, I say we go home and regroup. We all need sleep anyway and come back in the morning with fresh heads." Jason said looking at everyone. "Zedd and Rita shouldn't bother us anymore tonight." He added.
"Sounds like a plan." Trini said wearily thinking that she wouldn't be able to focus anymore tonight anyway.
"I agree with Jason, we need to clear out heads before we think of any plan concerning Kimberly." Adam commented in support. "I mean it is Kimberly."
"Don't worry Rangers, Alpha and I will contact you if anything happens." Zordon said as the rangers nodded. They raised their wrists and teleported out of the Power Chamber in colored streaks. They had a lot to think about for the night.
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Tommy walked into his room a few hours later. He had gone to the park to go over everything they knew at the moment. Something was wrong with Kim; she believed that they had betrayed her but why? Zedd had to be behind this since he knew that his connection with Kimberly was strong and that Tommy would try to use it to get her back. Sitting on the bed, he removed his shoes and shirt and sighed.
He looked over at the picture on his desk. It was one of him and Kim right after he had joined the team. He remembered what it had felt like to be the Evil Ranger and he didn't want that for Kimberly. Somehow he knew that weird pain he got at the beach had to do with Kimberly being back in her Ninjetti robes. Seeing her in those robes had pierced his heart because he knew that it meant she had reconnected with her spirit animal. He wondered how she had reconnected with her powers and wondered if he could reconnect with his to get her back. It was worth a try because he refused to lose her again.
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"Kimberly, why are you here?" Trini asked as the Pink Ranger walked over to her friends. She missed the look of disdain on her best friend's face.
"You said that we were meeting at Ernie's today to discuss our powers." She said sitting down beside Zack. They had been just given these awesome powers by a floating head and everyone wanted to discuss how this would affect their lives. She was a little worried but that was to be expected since they would be fighting against an evil being.
"Uh, Kim you said that you didn't want to mess your hair up or risk your life so we found someone else." Jason whispered as Kat walked over to them. The blonde was dressed in a pale pink shirt with little strands of her hair pulled back in flower clips. Her long legs were encased in jeans that only made her look taller.
"Katherine? You are supposed to be in Australia. I don't hand over my powers until I go to Florida." She whispered looking around at everyone. They were dressed like they always were in their new colors. Jason had on a red tank top with black karate pants. Zack was wearing a black shirt with crazy patterned pants. Trini was in a yellow button up sleeveless shirt with black yoga pants on while Billy had on a blue t-shirt with overalls. They looked normal but Kat did not. She didn't live here yet.
"Kim, what's wrong with you? Kat's been in Angel Grove since we were five." Billy said giving Kim a weird look. The others exchanged looks thinking that Kim had gone crazy. She didn't know what they were talking about.
"What? No she hasn't." She said as Tommy walked over to them. She smiled and turned to face him. He looked a little different but she wasn't sure what it was.
"Kim, what are you doing here?" He asked as she looked up at him and realized that his hair was longer than when he first joined the team. It was back in his trademark pony tail and curled at the ends. She had never seen him curl it but she did like it.
"I thought that we were going to discuss out powers and what are you doing here? You don't move here for another few months." She said really trying to make sense of everything. She knew the first time she met Tommy was at school after his karate match against Jason. It was after that that he had become the Evil Green Ranger.
Tommy looked at everyone before looking back at Kim. "I don't know what you are talking about but I moved here three years ago and have been dating Trini for the past two years. You set us up remember. Are you okay?" He asked placing a hand to her forehead. "I think that this has been too much on you." He said squatting down next to her. "Do I need to call your dad?" He asked as she stared at him. What was he talking about? She didn't speak with her father that much so why would Tommy call him? Why wouldn't he call her mother?
Kim's eyes popped open and looked around. She got up and walked outside the palace to look over the moon's surface. The rangers had not saved her because they didn't care. If they had of cared then she wouldn't be here but then should she be with them? They didn't even trust her to adjust to the Pink Ranger powers just called in Katherine after she made a joke about her hair.
They would learn that she was stronger than they could ever know. She was no longer the bubbly, inviting person she had been. Look where that had gotten her, no she would teach those rangers a lesson. They would fear this Pink Ranger.
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"How are those dreams coming along?" Scorpina asked Finster as Goldar and Rito walked in behind her.
"Good, she remembers her past but I have changed it from what she remembers. Everything is twisted." He informed her.
"Will this work?" Goldar asked remembering the last time they had messed with the rangers' dreams. It hadn't work then.
"Yes it will because once I changed one memory, her mind fell in line and changed the others. She now believes that the rangers didn't trust her the first time with the Pink Ranger powers and replaced her." Finster explained as Scorpina and Goldar nodded.
"What's going on with that crystal?" Rito asked scratching his head.
"Don't worry about and don't touch it." Goldar said shoving him out of the room. "Make sure that he doesn't do anything to it." He said as Finster and Scorpina nodded. They didn't need Rito messing anything up so he had to be kept away from Finster's crystal that was linked to Kim's dreams.
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"I'm worried about Tommy; he was supposed to meet us here." Jason said as he grabbed a glass and took a drink. They were in the park today so that no one could overhear what they were saying and it was easier to spread out since there were a lot of them now.
"I just saw him; he was walking along the lake." Rocky said sitting down next to Adam and Aisha. "He didn't look in the mood for any talking." He stated.
Kat sighed before standing up. "I can go talk to him. He probably needs a shoulder right now." She said rubbing her hands on her jeans.
"No, just stay here. I'll go." Trini said standing up. "I think that he would talk to me over you right now." She said as the Pink Turbo Ranger nodded and looked over at Jason.
"If you need us, let us know." Aisha stated as Trini nodded. She had been worried about Tommy since he had gone home alone last night. He was in that room with memories of him and Kimberly and that could not have been easy. It was the first time that he had to go to bed and know that he had not saved Kimberly from Zedd.
"I may be a while." Trini muttered before leaving them.
"Do you think that Trini was the best person to talk to Tommy?" Tanya asked knowing that she didn't know the Original Yellow that well.
"She could be, she and Tommy were close when she was here. She wanted to make sure that he didn't break her best friend's heart and he wanted to know more about Kim." Billy informed them. "They sort of became friends out of mutual love of Kimberly."
"Will Tommy be able to deal with the fact that Kimberly is evil?" Adam asked as Jason sighed and finally sat down. He had been pacing for the past ten minutes.
"I don't know, I just don't know." He said as they fell into silence. They didn't know what to do when they faced Kim again only that they would have to fight her and try to get her back.
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Tommy picked up another rock and cast it into the lake as he thought about the dreams he had had last night. They were twisted memories and he wondered where they had come from. In some of them, it was he who had hurt Kimberly and pushed her into being evil. Was it that small part of the evil in him that he could never get rid of, the cause of this? Could Kimberly sense that in him?
"None of this is your fault." A voice said behind him.
"Trini, you walked as quiet as death." He said as she laughed. "You should give Jason lessons." He muttered.
"Well I'm not that quiet but with your thoughts so loud I guess you didn't hear me walk up. I mean I heard your thoughts several feet away." She said coming to his side. "Its Zedd's fault." She said reaching for his hand. "We all know that and don't blame you."
"I know that but my dreams do not. I mean there is a small part of me that will always be evil and I question it. I mean my connection with Kimberly is strong and it pulls me. I can feel the evil in her and its calling for me." He said squeezing her hand. "I don't know if I'm strong enough to fight it." He whispered as Trini's heart broke. "I don't know if I can fight Kimberly."
"You have to fight it, Tommy for Kimberly. She has to be able to know that you are fighting for her." She said pulling him into her arms to hug him. "You have to fight the evil in her to get her back." She whispered into his ear.
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"So apparently my dreams were right. It's just me questioning them then." Kim muttered while watching Trini and Tommy hug. She had seen Tommy by himself and decided to talk to him but then Trini had walked over to him alone. She didn't even know that Trini was in the park but apparently Tommy had been waiting for her. She wouldn't go to him now. She would fight the goodness in him until he was destroyed so that she could get him out of her head.
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"Alpha, Kimberly is in the park. Please inform the rangers." Zordon said as Alpha nodded and did as Zordon said. The alarms were flashing and sounding off to indicate Kimberly. Zordon had sensed her before the alarms had.
"I hope that the rangers can get her back." Alpha said as Zordon agreed. The rangers had a fight before them but he knew that if anyone could get her back, it would be his chosen.
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Kim watched as Trini finally released Tommy and knew that now was the time to strike. Closing her eyes, she focused on her powers and was wrapped in her red ninjetti robes once again. The power flowing through her body clouded her thoughts once again and all she saw was red.
"No good deed should go unpunished." She muttered as she made her way over to them. It would be her new creed.
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"Guys, Kim's here in the park." Jason said trying to catch his breath. They had gotten the call from Alpha and rushed to find Tommy and Trini. They didn't know why Alpha had contacted them only that he didn't.
"Where?" Tommy asked stepping past Trini to face the other rangers. He felt Kim before she appeared.
"Here." Kim said coming up behind the rangers. "I would think that you would know better than to come to the park. How many times were you attacked here Tommy? I mean really Goldar captured you here who knows how many times." Kim asked as everyone looked at her. She was once again the red ninja robes but the hood was off. Tommy knew that she never really liked the hood anyway but she have it totally off in the park meant that she didn't care who saw her. The wind was blowing her hair softly around her face but that was the only thing soft in Kimberly. She had an edge that they didn't even know she had, a hardness that Tommy had never seen before even when she had been under any spell before. Her eyes were glowing red too.
"Kim, you had got to stop this. You are not evil." Tommy said rushing to her side to take her hands in his. He was hoping that their bond would break through the evil clouding her mind. He squeezed her hands trying to get her to snap out of the haze.
"You don't know what you are talking about. I am evil and I like it. I don't have to rush off to save anyone or put my life on the line to rescue someone, oh wait, I guess you don't either." She said pulling her hands away from him. "Stay out of my head." She said pushing him back with her mind. He landed a few feet away from her. "I don't need you pushing your heartbroken thoughts on me." She stated as Tommy looked at her. He had never heard her talk like that especially to him.
The rangers didn't know what to think about that. Kim hadn't touched Tommy yet he was on his butt several feet away from her. She had gained powers when she turned evil and that scared them because they didn't know what she was capable of.
"Kimberly you must fight this evil. I know it's hard but you have to break its hold on you." Kat pleaded stepping forward thinking that Kim would see her in Pink and realize that they were on the same side. "If I can break it, then you can." She stated.
"I don't want to break it. You wanted my place as the Pink Ranger, well you can have it. I have more powers now than I have ever had and I like it." She said lifting Kat off the ground without touching her. All she was raise her hand and let her mind do the rest. "Pink is out." Kim stated with a smile as her eyes flashed.
"KIMBERLY!" Jason shouted as he rushed over to her. He was tired of standing back. This was his little sister and she needed to see reason. This was not Kimberly talking; it was the evil taking over her.
"What? Don't like to play?" She asked tossing Kat to the side. Tanya and Adam rushed over to her to help her up.
"Stop this! Can you not see that you are on the wrong side? We use to fight together, we're family." He said as her body started to glow red.
"Family?" She questioned as the wind picked up. "Family saves each other but I guess I wasn't worth saving. You didn't even come after me, Jason. How can you say that we're family?" She asked as she sent out a wave that knocked everyone down once again as she disappeared in a swirl of red.
The rangers stood up before teleporting back to the Power Chamber.
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"Where have you been?" Zedd questioned as Kimberly appeared back in the palace.
"I will not explain myself to you." She said walking away from him.
"You know that she doesn't listen to you, I think that you should change that or you will never get her under control." Goldar said from behind him.
"Sometimes you are correct; I just need the right way to bring her under my foot. She is too headstrong." Zedd confirmed as he walked away. He had to find the perfect way to curb Kimberly's tongue. She was here to serve him not the other way around and she needed to learn that fast.
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"Zordon, is there anything we can do to break through the evil in Kim's mind?" Jason asked as the rangers demorphed.
"We have been working on finding a way but right now I can't see anything that would work. I mean she is blocking every attempt to enter her mind." Billy informed them as he removed his glasses to rub his eyes. He just couldn't figure out how to reach Kimberly.
"What about my link with her?" Tommy quietly asked. He had been thinking about what she told him to stay out of her mind. Somehow he had reached her if only for a minute.
"Right now I'm worried about your link because she could pull you to her. The evil clouding her mind is stronger than any of us have faced." Billy replied as Tommy just stared at him.
"So what are you saying? Could Kim turn Tommy evil?" Jason asked looking from Billy to Tommy. Zack and Trini looked at each other before turning back to Billy. They remembered Tommy as the Evil Green Ranger and they would prefer not to face that again along with Kimberly. Rocky, Adam, Aisha, Kat, and Tanya had only heard stories and those had been toned down through the telling.
Billy sighed before replacing his glasses. "I just don't know. It is possible that she could and for the time being, Tommy you need to block your mind against her the best you can. I know it's going to be hard but for the good of the team it's the only thing you can do until we figure out how to get Kim back." He said facing Tommy. This was going to be the hardest battle Tommy had ever faced since he had to block Kim but until they could figure out a way Tommy could reach Kim without being turned this was the only solution.
Tommy stood there in silence for several minutes before finally speaking. "I think I need some time alone. Jason can you contact me if anything comes up?" He asked turning to the Original Red Ranger and his best friend.
"Sure." Jason agreed as Tommy teleported out of the Power Chamber in a red streak.
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Kimberly felt a sudden loss of focus and wondered where that had come from. It was like something had been taken from her but she didn't even know what it was. Something was not right.
Walking through the catacombs under the Moon Palace she passed through several dimensions before coming to one that she had only been too once. She had apparently passed through the opening without knowing it because looking around she knew that there wasn't a way out that you could see. The dimension was one that would give Tommy pause and make him remember.
Smirking she thought of a plan to get him here, it would have to be something good since he would not come here willingly but then again this was the same dimension that had housed the Green candle all those years ago and it was the one that would bring his death.
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"Shouldn't Tommy be here?" Kat asked as she found a chair in Billy's garage the next afternoon. It had been a quiet night and morning when Billy had called for everyone to meet here.
"I talked to him and he said if we needed him, he would be here but he was teaching a class." Billy said without looking up. He and Trini had been working a few things trying to shield the Power Chamber from Kimberly's mind. They had come up empty until an hour ago.
"What? He is teaching a class when we need him? He is our leader and that right now is more important." Tanya stated sitting down next to Adam and Rocky. "He has hardly been here to help us deal with this."
Jason shook his head before leaning against the counter. "He is your leader but right now he is the most vulnerable. He needs to keep his head so that he can fight the love of his life." He said as Trini walked over to him and laid her hand on his shoulder.
"They don't understand." She whispered as he nodded.
"What? What don't we understand? We know that Tommy loves Kimberly, I mean who cannot see that but his place is with us right now." Kat said jumping up. "She means a lot to all of us and this is hard for all of us." She said throwing her hands up in the air.
"You don't get it. Yes we all love Kimberly and yes this is hard for all of us but for Tommy this is life altering. He is dealing with his guilt of not saving her when he had the chance and he is dealing with the fact that she is evil and he can't reach her. They share a link that you only wish you could." He fired back at her. "Listen, you know what its like to be evil now picture it if the only person you ever loved or could ever love was evil, how would you feel?" He asked before walking past her outside.
"Jason is right this is hard on all of us and I think that we need to take a breath. Everyone's tempers are at the breaking point and that's not a good place for the team to be. I suggest we close our eyes and think about nothing." Trini said quietly. "We cannot afford to fall apart now." She said as she closed her eyes. Everyone else followed. You could hear a pin drop in the garage for several minutes. "Okay now we need to come up with a plan to help Tommy keep Kim from his mind until we can break the spell." She said as everyone opened their eyes.
Jason sat down on the metal bench that Billy's dad had placed outside. It had been his last gift to his wife before she died. He remembered the only one that Billy had let near him in those weeks was Kimberly. She had forced her way into his bedroom and had not come out until the next day. Billy's dad had been worried about his son until Kimberly had shown up at the door wanting to see Billy.
He also remembered the first time Kimberly had seen Tommy. There was such a glow about her that Jason knew she was in love. She didn't tell him for the longest time because she was afraid that he would give Tommy a hard time. She didn't know that he had given Tommy a hard time anyway because of Tommy's feelings for Kimberly that he had tried to hide.
Looking up across Billy's front yard, he thought about the moment he had said goodbye to Kimberly. He was leaving for the Peace Conference and hadn't wanted to tell her goodbye because he was afraid that he wouldn't see her again. She had pulled him into a hug and didn't let go until he said the words. It had been the last time he had seen her until the other day in the airport. He didn't even get to say hello to her just watched Goldar grabbed her before disappearing with her.
Tommy didn't know it but he felt guilty too. If he would have met her at the gate then none of this would have happened. She would be sitting beside him or watching Tommy as he taught his class. Last night, he had closed his mind against her just to protect it. The rangers didn't need both him and Tommy not able to lead. It had hurt to shut her off but it had to be done.
Standing up, he glanced back at the RADBUG and smiled. They got Tommy back and they would get Kimberly back. They just needed a plan.
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