Kimberly slowly opened her eyes and noticed she wasn't in pain anymore. She immediately noticed that Tommy was transforming. "TOMMY!" she cried out as she was panting. Tommy began to shrink close to her size. Bright light surrounded him and a few minutes later, a handsome white falcon stood on Tommy's tuxedo. "Tommy, are you okay?"
Tommy faced her and his eyes began to flash green. "Why do you care?" Tommy grumbled as he saw the crane head over to him.
Rita and Zedd sat on their thrones and watched Kimberly walk over to Tommy. "She has no idea what she is in for," Rita laughed as Tommy glared at Kimberly.
"When I turned Tommy into a falcon, I used another spell to turn him evil," Zedd snickered as he watched Kimberly slowly make her way over to Tommy. "Tommy believes that Kimberly is his enemy. And he will attack her until he destroys her."
"Tommy, are you okay?" Kimberly repeated when she was face to face with him. She began to nuzzle him affectionately. "What's wrong with you?"
Tommy stared at Kimberly with anger. "Don't play dumb with me!" he hissed as knocked her down. "You know very well what I'm talking about. I loved you and asked you to marry me. You told me that you never loved me and you were working for the villains'. You are out to destroy me!"
"Tommy, that's not true!" Kimberly gasped as she stood back up. "You must be under one of Zedd's spells."
"LIAR!" Tommy shouted as he flew over to Kimberly and started scratching her with his sharp claws. "You are using that for an excuse!"
"PLEASE STOP SCRATCHING ME!" she cried out in pain. Tommy stopped scratching her, but he started pecking her on the head with his beak. "Tommy! Please stop!"
"No!" he shouted as he continued to peck her. "After you broke my heart, you said I was a worthless piece of trash!"
Kimberly felt tears form in her eyes. "I never said that!" she cried out. "You mean everything in the world to me!"
"You're just saying that!" he cried out with rage and anger as she managed to knock him away from her. "So, you want to fight me?! That can be arranged!"
Kimberly looked around to find a place to take cover. A few feet away from her was small hole in the wall that looked big enough for her to take shelter in. Stretching out her wings, she flew into the opening. "I'm not going to fight you!" Kimberly called out. Heartbroken, weak, and frustrated, she fell to the ground and let out a soft groan.
"I'm not going anywhere!" Tommy hollered as he made himself comfortable the small opening. "When you come out, we'll continue our fight."
"Well, then I'm not going to come out of here!" Kimberly hollered back before passing out.
Kimberly let out a soft yawn as she opened her eyes. She was still hurting all over, as if her body had giant bruise. She found herself looking at the smooth stone walls and it seemed as if she was in a small cave. Through the small opening, she could see Zedd's throne room. Drops of water was dripping from the pipes above. "So, I wasn't dreaming after all," she sighed when she caught glimpse of white feathers outside the opening. "I'm a crane and Tommy's falcon. He's probably still under Zedd's control."
Tears were streaming down her face as she saw his tail feathers outside. All he wanted was to have Rita and Zedd spare her life. He allowed them to turn him into a falcon to save her. Kimberly didn't like the idea of being a crane. As a crane, she would be bathing in bird baths, eating gross bugs, having to build nests, she would be nude full time, and she knew she would probably not be able to communicate with anyone; when Tommy agreed to be a falcon, she didn't think things would be so bad. At least she'd have him to talk to, he'd make sure that she was safe, and he would make sure that she knew that he loved her. But, she never dreamed things would get to this point. Tommy was under a spell and had attacked her. He was angry, hurt, and brain washed.
Kimberly slowly stood up, ignoring all her aches and pains. Even though she was still wobbling, she started to make her way back into Zedd's throne room. As soon as she stepped back into the throne room, Tommy was still waiting for her outside of the opening.
"So, you finally had enough courage to come out here and face me?!" Tommy remarked in a hateful voice. He stood up and was ready to continue the fight. "I thought you had chickened out. I've been waiting for the last five hours."
Kimberly would be lying if she said she was scared. But, she could let her fear stop her from this task. Tommy needed her and she wasn't about to give up on him.
Tommy flew above her and made eye contact with her. His eyes were still flashing green. "I believe you and Tommy need some special bonding time," Zedd hissed as he picked up his Z staff. "I'll sit here and watch Tommy destroy you!" At his command, Tommy started screeching at Kimberly while he raised one of his clawed foot. He moved closer towards her. Kimberly backed away while fear was running through her whole body. Tommy Oliver, her best friend, and the person she loved the most was turning on her. He was treating her as if she was one Zedd's monsters to be fought and destroyed!
"Face, it pinky, Tommy is under our control for good!" Rita shouted from her throne, while she was watching Tommy attack Kimberly with his claws.
Kimberly refused to believe that Tommy was evil for good. Somewhere behind the glazing green eyes was the boy who loved, and whom she loved in return. "Tommy!" Kimberly cried out with hot tears streaming down her face. "Tommy, I know you can hear me and I know that you know who I am! Tommy, this isn't you! You are under one of Zedd's spells! You've got to fight this!"
Tommy glared at Kimberly with rage as he was flapping his wings in consecration. "Tommy, remember the time we first kissed by the lake? You asked me to be your date to a school dance and I said yes! she sobbed as she tried to reach out to him. "Remember when you lost your powers as the green ranger?"
"I don't need to be reminded of that!" Tommy yelled and he started pecking her. " You are only looking for the worst in me."
"Tommy, that is not true!" Kimberly bawled as she felt sharp pecks on her body. "Please try to remember? I wrote a song for you and we fought Guitardo! Remember when you became the white ranger? I wanted you to rejoin the team and I didn't want anyone else to take your place. Remember when my mom married the French painter?
"So, are you trying to use that for an excuse now?!" Tommy interrupted as he stopped pecking her. "Are you too embarrassed to admit what you did to me!?"
"Remember, I didn't want to go to Paris!" she choked as her eyes were beginning to burn from crying so hard. "I wanted to stay in Angel Grove because I didn't want to leave you! Tommy, do you remember several months ago when Coach Schmidt captured us? We were in the forest on our own for weeks and we were later locked in his basement. I wasn't scared because I knew you loved me and wouldn't let anything happen to me!"
Tommy's eyes narrowed when he saw a shackle with pink and white stones around Kimberly's foot. In the center, there was a white heart cut gem. He immediately realized it was the engagement ring. "Zeddy, the spell is breaking!" Rita screamed as she watched Tommy stop attacking her.
Zedd stood up from his throne stomping his foot on the ground. "You fool! Don't just stand there!" he ordered as he picked up his Z staff. "Pinky, give it up! You've lost him for good. He doesn't love you!"
Kimberly ignored Zedd shouting out at Tommy, focusing on her white knight, the love of her life, and her best friend. "TOMMY, I LOVE YOU!" Kimberly screamed as she collapsed in the middle floor. Tommy flew over to Kimberly as soon as her body hit the floor. Not knowing what to think, she looked up at him. The evil green faded from his eyes and gazed at her with his beautiful chocolate eyes.
He laid down next to her and began to nuzzle her affectionately. "Tommy, I knew you'd never let anything come between," Kimberly purred weakly. "I believed in you the whole time."
"I'm so sorry, Beautiful," Tommy apologized as tears were streaming down his face. He looked at her body that was covered in scratch marks, bruises, and cuts. "You know that I would never do anything to hurt you."
"You have nothing to be sorry for," Kimberly assured him as she smiled weakly. "You were under Zedd's spell. If anyone should be sorry it's him."
Zedd stood up from his throne and grabbed his Z staff. "No one talks about me like that and gets away with it!" Zedd yelled as pointed his Z staff at Kimberly. "Tommy, you almost finished her off. But, it doesn't matter! If she takes one stronger hit, she's history! I'll finish her off myself and I'll be remembered for destroying the pink ranger!" Green sparks shot out of Zedd's wand.
"KIMBERLY!" Tommy screamed as he covered her with his body to shield her for being hit by the sparks. He felt pain go through his entire body and hit the ground.
"Tommy, are you okay?" Kimberly asked in a worried tone when she felt him land next to her.
He stretched out one of his white wings and held her in a tight embrace. "Don't even think about touching her!" Tommy threatened as he looked at Rita and Zedd with hatred. "I won't let you take her from me!" Rita and Zedd didn't answer, instead the muttered a spell and Kimberly and Tommy were thrown into a large bird cage.
Zedd walked over to the bird cage and saw Kimberly had passed out. "I hope they like their new home," Zedd stated as he began to laugh.
"Even if the rangers to find them the rangers won't be able to help them," Rita smirked as she saw Tommy panting and all sweaty. "There are only two ways to turn them back. Either we have to change them back or one of you spells has to be reflected back on them."
Zedd looked at Tommy with hate. "But, we aren't going to say which spell must be reflected on them," Zedd remarked as he continued to look at Tommy. "You and your pink princess will have to find out on your own."
Rita pointed her wand at Tommy. "I think you need a nap," she told Tommy. Blue sparks shot from her wand and Tommy went to sleep.
Tommy slowly opened his eyes and noticed the throne room was empty. The only light they had was from the lit torches on the wall. "They must have all went to bed," Tommy realized as he stretched his wings out. He looked around their huge bird cage. It had a bird bath, a small blanket, and a bird feeder full of bird seed. His stomach began to growl from not having a meal for nearly 24 hours. He walked over to the bird feeder and started eating bird seed. And the strange part was that he liked it.
"I'm starving," Kimberly moaned as she woke up. She looked around and spotted Tommy eating from the bird feeder. "Tommy, what are you eating?"
"Sunflower seeds," Tommy fibbed. "They're really good. There is enough for both of us."
Kimberly went over to the bird feeder and unaware she was eating bird seed. "These taste so good," Kimberly smiled as she was enjoying her meal. Her eyes narrowed when she noticed Tommy was blinking his eyes and was trying to keep a straight face. "Tommy, your eyes are blinking and you're trying to keep from laughing. Tell me the truth. What are we really eating?"
"We're actually eating bird seed," Tommy confessed. "I knew that you would refuse to eat if I told you it was bird seed."
"I can't believe I actually like bird seed," Kimberly smiled as she continued eating. She noticed they only had a bird bath. "Why don't we have a separate place to drink water from."
"Kim, in junior high my science class went bird watching," Tommy explained as he finished eating. "Birds also use bird baths for drinking and to cool off in. And there can be two or more birds using the bird bath at the same time."
"Tommy, it's not sanitary to drink from your bath water!" Kimberly groaned as she laid down on the soft blanket. She looked down at floor and saw hers and Tommy's empty formal clothes still laying in the floor. "This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me! I have wing instead of arms, I have a beak, my neck is longer, and I'm covered in pink feathers."
"Beautiful, I thought you could use some company," Tommy stated he headed over to the blanket. "I understand if you want some time to be alone."
"You're fine," she assured him.
He moved closer to her and placed a wing over her. "Kim, I'm so sorry you had suffered when we were brought here," Tommy apologized as he snuggled up to her. "I didn't know Zedd had planned to have place an evil spell over me. As soon as I was transforming I felt sparks go through my body. It was a lot like it was when Rita made me her evil green ranger."
"I'm sorry you had to go through that again," she answered as she felt his body tremble. "You don't have nothing to be ashamed of-"
"Kim, I scratched you, pecked you, knocked you down, and wanted to fight you," he stuttered while his eyes got watery. "I am the reason you have all of those scratches, cuts, and bruises all over your body."
"Tommy, I'll heal over time," Kimberly promised him. "If you really must hear these words, I have already forgiven you. I wish that you would be able to forgive yourself."
"Kim, how are you able to say all of this?"
"Because I know you chose to become a falcon to save me," she informed him, while nuzzling him. "Everything you did was to stop Zed from draining my life force."
"Beautiful, after you finally got through to me, I thought I lost you forever when you collapsed in the floor," he confessed tears ran down his face.
"Tommy, I thought I had lost you when you were under Zed's spell and when you took that hit to save me," she admitted as tears began to form in her puffy red eyes. "If I lost you, it would have destroyed be as if I had ended up getting hit with the green sparks myself. Tommy, I'm scared."
"Kimberly, I am scared too," Tommy whispered as he pulled her closer to him. "A lot of unusual things have happened to us lately."
"Can you do anything to make this situation better?" she asked. "I don't like the thought of us being birds."
"I can't make it all better," he sighed as he looked through the cage and noticed that the hot flames were mysteriously disappearing from the torches one by one. "But, I hold you and tell you that the others are probably looking for us."
"Has it ever dawned on you that there's a chance they may never find us? Or it may be a while before they are able to rescue us?" Kimberly questioned as the room became pitch black. "And even if they did rescue us, they don't know how to turn us back into humans again."
"I heard Zedd say how we can be humans again," Tommy gulped as he felt cold air blow from the fans behind Zedd's throne. "There are two ways."
Kimberly felt her heart leap with joy. "Tommy, what are they?!" she asked in a cheerful voice.
"Zedd or Rita have to change us back," Tommy confided to her. "Or one of Zedd's spells has to be reflected back on us."
"Did you hear which spell it was?" Kimberly hinted.
"No, I didn't," Tommy confessed as he felt her head next to his claw. "Rita and Zedd told me that we had to find out what spell it was on our own."
"Just great!" she complained in an angry voice. "There go our chances of getting out of this mess! I guess we will birds from now on. You must hate this transformation as much as I do."
"As long as I have you, I'm okay." He felt her pull away from him. "Kim?"
"How does that make you okay?" she hissed as she moved to the other side of the cage.
"I'd rather spend the rest of my life as a falcon and you as crane, instead of not having you at all," he explained as he went over to her.
"But, I didn't want that for you," she replied as she felt him lay next to her. "I would have stayed with you even if I was crane and you were a human."
"Beautiful, I know you would have. But, I also realize there aren't any pink cranes. Some people would think you were a rare crane," he continued as he moved closer to her. "Remember, when the Angel Grove zoo was offered to have a rare white alligator in zoo? They immediately accepted the offer. I'm sure if they saw a pink crane, you'd be in danger. And I'd have to keep you hidden all the time and always be afraid of someone finding out where you were. If someone found you out where you were, they'd try to take you when I wasn't around. And then If that happened, I wouldn't have you anymore. The only way, I'd get to see you would be if I went to the zoo and stared at you through a glass wall."
"I wouldn't have wanted that," Kimberly murmured as she wrapped her wing around Tommy. "I'd rather us learn to deal with this together than by ourselves."
Tommy felt her began to relax. "Hey, Beautiful, it's getting late," he stated as her heard her let out a yawn. She was shivering as the fans were blowing in the room. Tommy got up and went over to the blanket. Picking it up in his beak, he took it back over to where Kimberly was. "It's a little chilly." He covered Kimberly up and crawled under the covers.
"I love you," Kimberly purred as she felt him snuggle up next to her.
"I love you too," Tommy answered as he rested his head against her long neck. "No matter what happens, you will always have me."
