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They were back in the command center. Everyone was looking at them in shock.

He chuckled. "What?"

"That was impressive," Jason said.

"We're working on it," Tommy said.

"Are you ok now?" Jason asked Kim.

"Of course. Why wouldn't I be?" Kimberly smiled.

"She turned it back up." Trini chuckled.

"Why would you do that?" Kat asked.

"Don't!" Jason growled.

Kat ignored him. "I mean seriously, I thought after seeing what you did to him in battle because of your connection you'd be smart enough to turn it off and leave it off."

"I…" Kimberly didn't know what to say.

"What? How could you do that to a man you claim to love? He could have been seriously hurt today! If it hadn't been for us protecting him, the cogs would have destroyed him! All because of you! Because you got scared."

"Kat that's enough," Tommy growled. He pulled Kimberly into his arms. "I told Kim to turn it back on! She did it for me! What happened today was not her fault! We are still working on our connection, and we will continue to work on it until we have it under control."

"Practice or not Kimberly almost got you killed! What if we hadn't stepped in, what if the cogs had captured you? Kimberly is a danger to you as well as everyone else on this team! I can't believe someone like her was ever a power ranger." Kat growled.

"Back off, Kat!" Rocky said. "Now!"

Kat ignored him and looked to Kim. "If you really love him the way you say you do, then you need to let him go. Go back to FL go back to that other boyfriend you wrote about. Leave Tommy and the rest of us alone."

Kimberly let tears fill her eyes, but she looked down so nobody could see them. She went to pull away from Tommy, but he just tightened his hold on her. "Kimberly isn't going anywhere, and the fact that you would say that to her is disgusting. You know what kind of life she had in FL! You know the way she was treated. Besides sending Kim away will only make the connection stronger and the episodes I've been having in the past will come back. Only this time they will be even stronger. I don't want you to ever say that again."

"But she's right, Tommy," Tanya said.

"No, she isn't!" Rocky yelled. "I was there too! It's not Kimberly's fault."

Soon everyone was fighting and yelling at each other.

Kimberly started to cry as she tried to pull away from Tommy but he refused to let her go. Instead, he teleported them back to her room and away from everyone. He knew it wouldn't be long until Kat's true colors were seen. But he was starting to worry about what was going to happen to the team when it did.


He sat down on the bed and kept Kimberly in his arms. "It's ok, Beautiful. Kat is wrong. You don't have to listen to her. Nothing about what happen in that battle is your fault."

Kimberly didn't respond to him. She didn't even show she could hear him. He sighed softly. "What are you thinking?" He placed his head on her head, but he couldn't hear her thoughts. "Oh no," he whispered. He closed his eyes and tried to take them back to their special place, but it didn't work. He inhaled and exhaled a deep breath when he realized she had turned it off. She had completely shut him out.

"No." He said. "I'm not going to let you do this." He said. "Why are you doing this? You know Kat is lying!"

"I'm not going to hurt you anymore." She said softly. "The first few times I didn't know what I was doing but now that I know what's happening and how to control it I'm not going to hurt you anymore Tommy."

"But you already are." Tommy sighed. "Don't you see, this is hurting me. You completely shutting me out like this is hurting me."

Kimberly didn't speak.

"This is worse than anything else I've ever felt from our connection; worse than the injections, worse than your messages and your screeching crane. This is the worse pain I've ever felt. Please Beautiful, if you don't want to hurt me turn it back on."

Kimberly just sighed. "I can't."

"Why?"

"Kat is right, I got a little nervous about you in battle today, and it almost got you captured or worse killed. I can't let you get hurt because of me."

"I hurt you first!" Tommy cried out. "I'm the one who hurt you first. Remember? When I hit that tree, you felt it. It brought you to your knees. If I hadn't done that you never would have been scared or worried for me and your Crane wouldn't have called out to me."

"That wasn't your fault. A stupid puttie threw you into a tree."

Tommy chuckled. "They are cogs now but close enough."

"Either way they threw you into a tree and hurt you. I felt it. That doesn't make it your fault."

"So then why is it your fault when all you did was feel my pain and become worried?"

Kimberly didn't answer him. She didn't have an answer to give.

"You can't answer me because you know I'm right. Kimberly, we've been having so much fun with learning about all the fun things we can do with our connection and practicing to make the powers stronger. But we forgot that there is a downside to all this. We have to work on controlling this side of our connection just like we've had to work and practice everything else. In order to do that, you have to turn it on."

Kimberly inhaled and exhaled a deep breath. She closed her eyes and a few minutes later she opened them again. "It's on."

"Good Girl." Tommy kissed her head. "Don't ever shut it off again."

Kimberly nodded. "I promise."

"Now we just have to figure out how to control it, so we don't hurt each other anymore."

"I don't understand, though, you've been through a lot of battles since I've been back and I've never experienced that before."

"You've been so sore from your attack nobody would have thought anything of it. But now that you have physically healed the random spots of pain aren't as common." Tommy said.

"Oh."

"That doesn't mean it's your fault."

"It's not yours either."

"So we're both agreed it's not either of our faults. Deal?" Tommy asked.

"Deal."

"Good, seal it with a kiss?"

They shared a kiss on the lips, and then Kimberly laid her head on his chest. Tommy stroked her hair and kissed her forehead.

Zordon had sent all the other Rangers home to get some rest before more words were said that couldn't be taken back.


Rocky was headed home when a voice called out behind him.

"Rocky, wait up!"

He stopped and turned to see Adam running over to him.

"What's up?" Rocky asked once Adam caught up to him.

"Do you remember a while back you said you hadn't been feeling good?"

"Yeah. I was physically ill, couldn't eat or sleep, and I could never keep food down. Why do you ask?" Rocky answered.

"I think I caught what you had. How did you get rid of it? What kind of medicine?"

Rocky just smiled and shook his head. "This isn't the kind of stuff you can buy in the store, Adam. You're not sick."

"What do you mean?"

"I didn't start feeling better until I spoke with Tommy and Kim and told them that I believed them about Kat and I'm sorry for ever doubting them. Only I didn't just say it to make myself feel better I really believed it."

"Yeah. I'm starting to wonder myself. I mean the way Kat went off on Kim today after the battle was not normal." Adam said. "But at the same time, she's always been overprotective of Tommy."

"See." Rocky sighed. "If you were really ready to go talk to Kim and Tommy there would be no buts." With that, Rocky turned and walked away.

Adam sighed feeling completely and utterly stumped. Kat was just being over protective of Tommy…wasn't she?


In an unknown location, Aisha sighed softly as she wrapped her arms around her aching stomach.

"Hey Aisha, still not feeling well?" Another young girl around Aisha's age asked.

"Yeah. I just can't seem to shake this cold. I've tried every over the counter medicine possible. I've been to every doctor in the area, and nobody can figure out what's wrong with me."

"It's your stomach right?" the girl asked.

"Yeah, and I can't eat or sleep. When I do sleep, I have these terrible nightmares. There are six animals, A Falcon, A Cane, A Bear, A Wolf, An Ape and a Frog. In my dream, I know they are supposed to be friends, but instead, they are fighting each other. It feels like everyone is trying to attack the Falcon and the Crane but recently the Wolf and the Ape have joined forces to help protect the Falcon and Crane. The Frog keep trying to attack them, though. The bear is standing in the corner feeling helpless, almost like he's trapped. He wants to help but he physically can't. He wants to stop all the fighting…but he can't. "

"Maybe you've been watching too many nature shows. Anyway, I've got to go. Feel better." The young girl walked away.

Aisha sighed. It wasn't the nature shows and deep down she knew it. She looked at an old picture of her and the other rangers and sighed once more. "What's going on back home? Why would Adam's frog try and attack Kim's Crane or Tommy's Falcon?"


Back in the Command Center Tommy and Kim had teleported back to the main room once they others had gone.

"Zordon, we need to learn to control that part of our connection, we have no idea how" Tommy said. "But we can't let what happen today happen again."

"You are absolutely right, Tommy," Zordon said. "However you must understand this will not be easy. The other tests and trials you've have gone through were very different, easier than what you will have to face now."

"We understand. We're willing to do whatever it takes." Tommy said. "We just need to know how."

"You're not going to prick us with a needle or something like that…are you?" Kimberly asked.

"No. No physical harm will come to either of you. You will, however, be forced to endure things that you fear most."

"Like on Rita's Island of Illusions?" Kimberly asked.

"Yes, exactly like that. However, the fears you face here may be different than you faced all those years ago, for example, needles. I will never actually touch you with the needle, but you will have to think it will."

"Oh," Kimberly answered softly.

"And we're not going to vanish into thin air," Tommy added teasingly.

"We hope." Kimberly teased back.

"You will not vanish into thin air. However, you will be pushed further than you have in the past. Kimberly, you must know that at some point we're going to have to test the length of this connection and how far it can reach. That means you will have to face these fears with Tommy in another room."

"Why?" Kimberly asked softly.

"Because having Tommy here with you will help soothe the fears. We won't know how to control the connection until it's at it's maxed point again."

"But…but I…I was in Florida, and he was here, and we could communicate just fine."

"Yes, when the connection was on the max setting. However, once we lower that setting, we will need to figure out how far it will reach."

Kimberly sighed. She looked down to the floor. "I don't like this idea anymore."

"It's ok, Beautiful. I will never be far away." Tommy said. He pulled her into his arms and kissed her head. "I'm right here."

Kimberly was willing to do just about anything to learn to control her connection with Tommy but doing it without him by her side was not something she was going to do easily.


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