Getting Back To Business
Summary: Gathering the friends back together.
Rating: R, eventually
Disclaimer: I own nothing, so there.
Author's Notes: You can tell I'm bored, these past two days all I've done is write. Not that that's a bad thing, I'm trying to get as much done as I can before the inevitable writer's block sets in. Whenever I get writer's block it's usually for about three months, which can be annoying.
Thank you's: To my favourite Internet friend (and school friend) Chloe. You're a pal! And everyone, if you want to be nice, read and review her story, her author name is KoolChlo. That's my good deed for the day, so let's get on with the story.
*Angel Grove University: Oakland Hall*
*September 22 2001*
Rocky DeSantos was feeling as though he wasn't needed on this particular Thursday morning. Feeling as though he was unwanted was not, in general, a nice feeling. Today was no exception.
He missed the glory days, the days when he and his friends seemed to have had it all. They saved the world by day, and then had a social life at night. And all with time to do their homework in between.
And then it had all come crashing down. They had all been stripped of their posts as the world's resident superheroes at some time or another, and now came the time to start living regular lives all of the time.
For most, it had been an easy transistion. Tommy had gotten a racing position, Kat had been given a ballet scholarship, and Tanya, Adam and he had gone to the University of Angel Grove.
Only Tommy had ever admitted that he missed the old days. Adam and Tanya had slipped easily back into a regular life, it was as though they had never left, and no-one ever seemed to hear from Kat any more, except Tommy occasionally. After a while, Rocky began to realise what it was like to be Billy, left behind while the others made use of their new powers. After his back injury, he had never felt like part of the group again until they had left as well, and gone through the same feelings as he had done a short time earlier.
He began to understand how the original five must have been feeling when they gave up their powers. And as the days ticked by, he wanted the old life less and less, yet still the pang was there, the sense that there was still something missing.
Hence his indecision when confronted in his dorm room by Jason, Zack and Billy.
"Let me get this straight," Rocky said slowly, sinking onto his uncomfortable bed. "You're saying that the FBI want me- me, Rocky DeSantos, to become an agent to help get evil people back onto the side of good?"
"They want all of us, but yeah, that's basically it," Jason confirmed. "We've been instructed to get you six back to the Sitka Bau colony within the month, to await further instructions."
"Who else have you got?" Rocky asked. "I presume you three are in, and Trini and Kim as well. Anyone else?"
"Only Tommy so far," Billy said. "He knew where you were, but not Adam or Tanya, and we have to get in touch with Kat and Aisha somehow to try and persuade them that they want to leave their normal lives to go and do something that could well kill them."
"I know where Aisha is," Rocky said. "I e-mail her a lot. Adam and Tanya are about here somewhere, but they live off campus so there's no point in checking the hall directories for them. I have Kat's number and address around somewhere as well."
"So you're in?" Zack asked eagerly.
"You bet I'm in."
*345 Pawlett Road*
*September 22*
"Kim, are you sure your brother won't be back tonight?" Trini asked worriedly as Kim opened the door to her brother's house.
"He's staying at his girlfriend's house. If there's the slightest possibility that he'll be getting some tonight then he won't be back." She dumped her bag on the sofa, which had a pillow on the end and blankets strewn everywhere.
"You're sleeping on the sofa?" Jason asked disbelivingly. "I thought this place was a two bedroomed extravaganza."
"He's turned the other bedroom into an office, just like a sensible brother who wants his kid sister to visit at every available opportunity should," Kim said, then her face fell as she realised what she had said. "Still, he'll kick himself when we're gone."
"Okay," Billy said. "Someone switch on the computer and send an email to both Kat and Aisha, preferably the same one. I don't think we should be making cross-continental telephone calls when Kim's brother has to pay the bill." Trini walked over to the computer, then said, frowning,
"Why doesn't this go in the office, Kim?" She rolled her eyes, and replied,
"He has two. His laptop is in the office."
"Right, Trini's on that one. Rocky, do you want to ring Adam and Tanya, tell them to meet us here in about twenty minutes?"
Rocky pointed at the computer. "Trini's on it, I won't be able to use the phone."
"Here, use my cell," Tommy said, throwing it over to Rocky who was on the other side of the room. Rocky consulted a scrap of paper and then dialled a number.
The five who had nothing to do simply sat around waiting for the two busy people to report back to them. All engaged in their own thoughts as to what would happen if Adam, Tanya, Kat and Aisha wanted to join their merry cavalry, and what would happen if they didn't.
From: khart447
To: kathilliard, acampbell552
Subject: Come home NOW
Date: September 22, 2001
This is Trini using Kim's e-mail address. We need both of you to be back in Angel Grove within the month, preferably now or as soon as you can. The original five (Jason, Zack, Billy, Kim and I) have been approached by the FBI to recruit all of the Earth Rangers except Justin and all those who followed. There was information that was kept from us during our days as the most famous heroes on Earth, and we are needed to help defeat this evil.
Not to put any pressure on you or anything, but there has been a threat made against our lives if we do not recruit all of you. Billy thinks they won't go through with it, but Jason isn't so sure.
Rocky and Tommy are already in. Rocky is phoning Adam and Tanya as I write, and it sounds as though they're coming over here to sort things out.
If we don't hear from you in a week, we'll seek permission to teleport and bring you back, or at least I will. This is urgent, and we need you both.
On a lighter note, hope you are all well.
SEE YOU SOON Trini xxx
Rocky pressed the END button and threw the phone back to its owner who caught it in midair. "They're on their way, although I have to warn you Adam sounded pretty pissed at the entire thing, as in it doesn't sound as though he wants to be involved."
"Well, let's see if our 'Please help us otherwise we'll be dead' line has any effect on him then," Kim said, perching on the side of the overstuffed sofa. "Have you finished the email yet, Trini?"
"Uh-huh. I'll leave it on there for a while to see if we get any reply."
"How long do you think it will take them to get here, Rocky?" Jason asked. Now that they had two definite acceptances, the fear of impending doom was easing, especially as one of them had been his biggest doubt, Tommy. Jason knew that he had done the right thing in letting Kim go to persuade him, but now he had to face opposition in two cases he hadn't considered as a threat, Adam and Tanya.
"About ten, twenty minutes. Depends how bad the city traffic is," Rocky said. "Kim, have you got any food?"
"Check the kitchen," Kim said absently, having replaced Trini at the computer. "If there's none there, then no."
"Ha ha ha," Rocky said, walking out the door in search for food.
"What are you going to do if Adam and Tanya say no?" Tommy asked worriedly. He had faith in Adam and Tanya, and just hoped that it was the shock that had prompted the original dismissal.
"Pray that Kat and Aisha can make it," Zack said. "If we're only missing two, then we can still be a formidable force against evil, we'd be more than any Ranger team ever was. If we're missing four then we're going to be in deep shit, pardon my french."
"I thought Aisha was in Angel Grove," Trini said.
"She is, but she's out of town for a bit," Rocky said, coming back into the room with a bag of Twinkies in his hand. "Hence the e-mail. And I know that she's definitely not back, cos I got an email from her last night."
"That's that, then," Jason said. "Kim, keep checking your e-mail to see if we get any reply."
"Or, I could sit here until it's no longer 4 am in England and Kat will not be asleep and be conscious to get her e-mail," Kim said. "If she's on a scholarship then she's not going to be up at 4 am."
"Less of the sarcasm," Jason said, making a face at her. "We need to be prepared for what can happen."
"Like what, all four of them turning us down?" Trini said, chewing on her lower lip. "I still don't understand why they need so many of us anyway, not after all this time."
"Brute force?" Billy suggested. "But I have no idea why they need us, why they can't just get more experienced agents in to do whatever it is they have planned for us. And I have even less of an idea about the death threats against us. Do you think it would extend to those who turn them down?"
"What did the person who made the threat actually say to you?" Tommy asked.
"'If you don't bring back all the Rangers by October 15, there will be severe repercussions that will result in wreaths being sent to your parents' was the phrase used I believe," Kim said, looking at Tommy, refusing to let her emotions get the better of her. They had a job to do, and it would ruin the entire operation if they got involved. Never mind the fact that he probably didn't even want her anyway...
"So I guess they're serious then," Rocky said through a mouthful of Twinkie. "Don't think that I'm being funny, but do you think that the threat would extend to Tommy and I, if the other four refuse to do anything?"
Jason shrugged. "I have no idea. I can't even attempt to second-guess them on this one, we'll just have to wait."
*Adam Park's Toyota*
*September 22, 2001*
"Adam, what the hell does this mean?" Tanya asked her boyfriend as they travelled through the busy streets of Angel Grove in the middle of rush hour. "Do we have to give up college, tell our parents, what?"
"I don't know," Adam said quietly. "All Rocky really said that I could understand was that the original five had been brought to one of their colonies in New Mexico, and told that they were needed to turn people back into good again. If he was exaggerating at all then I'm not getting involved, and I don't think that you should either."
"I don't want to get involved anyway," Tanya said in the same quiet tone. "But if it's serious then we owe it to Zordon, we owe it to those Rangers still in battle. I can't forget all that we did Adam, and I think you're trying to."
"I'm not trying to forget it," Adam said irritably as the car ground to a halt, mimicking traffic all around them. "I'm just moving on."
"And what's the difference?" Tanya asked, calling him on his excuse. "I've moved on from our Ranger days and I think we all have, at least the ones that we still see. Yet I've never tried to block out the memories of what happened, because we shouldn't. If you want to move on you have to air your concerns and talk about them."
"You can tell that you're taking Psychology," Adam said. "I do talk about it with you though, that's why I think that I'm moving on."
Tanya rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say, but I want you to know one thing before we get to Kim's brother's house."
"And what's that?"
"I'm going with my feelings on this one. Once I've heard what it's all about I'll be making my own decision, and you won't have any power to stop me."
"Why couldn't I have found an obedient girlfriend?" Adam asked to the heavens.
*345 Pawlett Road*
"Come on in, you guys," Kim said, and ushered Adam and Tanya into the room where the other six were waiting. "I'll let someone else tell you about what's going on."
As soon as they walked in, Tanya knew that whatever was going on, it was the real thing, and serious. All seven of their friends were unsmiling, and both Trini and Kim looked pale and scared. "Why are we here?"
Jason sighed, and said, "I guess it's me this time. What did Rocky tell you?"
"That you original five were taken to one of the FBI colonies in New Mexico and told that you were needed to defend the world again, or words to that effect." Adam replied. "I don't see where we come in, to tell you the truth."
"You're needed too," Jason said, breaking the news to them. Tanya looked unsurprised, and he couldn't read Adam's expression, something inbetween shock, fear, and disbelief. "We were told to get all the Earth Rangers up to Tanya back to the colony before October 15, or we'd be dead."
"Dead?" Tanya whispered. "Why do they need all of us?"
"They managed to crack one of the codes that was used to encrypt a disk left behind in the Command Center," Billy explained. "From that they found out our identities, how to access teleportation, which by the way is how we got to the colony, and also things that hadn't been told to us before. The only thing that concerns us is the fact that there is evidence humans made deals with Zedd and Rita to save their lives. We don't know what kind of deals, or who the humans are."
"What I think is that they didn't want to tell us too much in case we couldn't get you guys in after having told you everything," Jason said. "But we need to know more than that if we're to do our jobs properly."
"And you guys just sat there and said, 'Yes, we'll let our lives be taken over by the FBI'?" Adam demanded. "Just like that?"
"We were all for walking out, let me tell you Adam," Zack said. "And we almost did, until we got the death threat made against our lives unless we got you guys to the colony. Let me assure you that we didn't just sit there and take it."
Tanya's decision was instantaneous. "I'm in."
All eyes turned to Adam. He didn't want to give up his career, his friends, his family, in essence his entire life. But then again, he didn't want to see his friends killed because he had wanted to save himself instead of the world. Reluctantly, he nodded and said "I guess that's me too then."
Relief flooded the room, and those who were in fear for their lives shared a smile, before Trini broke the happy mood.
"Kim, any e-mail while we were talking?"
Kim turned back to the computer, and was extremely surprised to see that both friends had already replied. "Trini, consider my words to be officially eaten. Even Kat's replied."
"Read them out," Tanya urged. Kim clicked on the icon, and within moments the first email appeared on screen.
"This is Aisha's" Kim announced.
From: acampbell552
To: khart447
Subject: I'm in
If there is any threat to your life, to any of your lives, how can you think I wouldn't be there? I'm in LA at the moment but I'll be back in Angel Grove at the weekend. I'll let Rocky know when and where exactly.
Chin up you guys, we'll get through this one somehow.
"I knew she'd come through," said Rocky jubilantly, punching a fist in the air.
"What about Kat?" Adam asked. Kim clicked again, and said, "Here goes,"
From: kathillliard
To: khart447
Subject: Re: Come home NOW
Despite the fact that it's 4.15 am, I'm up. Once I got your e mail I started packing. I'll be in Angel Grove as soon as I can, let me know where to go as soon as you can.
"We have the best friends in the world," Kim said. "I can't believe that everyone is still willing to risk everything just because some FBI guy in a grey suit made a death threat."
"We're still a team," Tommy pointed out. "No matter how bad we are at keeping in contact, we've gone through things that should keep us together for life. Now, it's time to get back to business."
Summary: Gathering the friends back together.
Rating: R, eventually
Disclaimer: I own nothing, so there.
Author's Notes: You can tell I'm bored, these past two days all I've done is write. Not that that's a bad thing, I'm trying to get as much done as I can before the inevitable writer's block sets in. Whenever I get writer's block it's usually for about three months, which can be annoying.
Thank you's: To my favourite Internet friend (and school friend) Chloe. You're a pal! And everyone, if you want to be nice, read and review her story, her author name is KoolChlo. That's my good deed for the day, so let's get on with the story.
*Angel Grove University: Oakland Hall*
*September 22 2001*
Rocky DeSantos was feeling as though he wasn't needed on this particular Thursday morning. Feeling as though he was unwanted was not, in general, a nice feeling. Today was no exception.
He missed the glory days, the days when he and his friends seemed to have had it all. They saved the world by day, and then had a social life at night. And all with time to do their homework in between.
And then it had all come crashing down. They had all been stripped of their posts as the world's resident superheroes at some time or another, and now came the time to start living regular lives all of the time.
For most, it had been an easy transistion. Tommy had gotten a racing position, Kat had been given a ballet scholarship, and Tanya, Adam and he had gone to the University of Angel Grove.
Only Tommy had ever admitted that he missed the old days. Adam and Tanya had slipped easily back into a regular life, it was as though they had never left, and no-one ever seemed to hear from Kat any more, except Tommy occasionally. After a while, Rocky began to realise what it was like to be Billy, left behind while the others made use of their new powers. After his back injury, he had never felt like part of the group again until they had left as well, and gone through the same feelings as he had done a short time earlier.
He began to understand how the original five must have been feeling when they gave up their powers. And as the days ticked by, he wanted the old life less and less, yet still the pang was there, the sense that there was still something missing.
Hence his indecision when confronted in his dorm room by Jason, Zack and Billy.
"Let me get this straight," Rocky said slowly, sinking onto his uncomfortable bed. "You're saying that the FBI want me- me, Rocky DeSantos, to become an agent to help get evil people back onto the side of good?"
"They want all of us, but yeah, that's basically it," Jason confirmed. "We've been instructed to get you six back to the Sitka Bau colony within the month, to await further instructions."
"Who else have you got?" Rocky asked. "I presume you three are in, and Trini and Kim as well. Anyone else?"
"Only Tommy so far," Billy said. "He knew where you were, but not Adam or Tanya, and we have to get in touch with Kat and Aisha somehow to try and persuade them that they want to leave their normal lives to go and do something that could well kill them."
"I know where Aisha is," Rocky said. "I e-mail her a lot. Adam and Tanya are about here somewhere, but they live off campus so there's no point in checking the hall directories for them. I have Kat's number and address around somewhere as well."
"So you're in?" Zack asked eagerly.
"You bet I'm in."
*345 Pawlett Road*
*September 22*
"Kim, are you sure your brother won't be back tonight?" Trini asked worriedly as Kim opened the door to her brother's house.
"He's staying at his girlfriend's house. If there's the slightest possibility that he'll be getting some tonight then he won't be back." She dumped her bag on the sofa, which had a pillow on the end and blankets strewn everywhere.
"You're sleeping on the sofa?" Jason asked disbelivingly. "I thought this place was a two bedroomed extravaganza."
"He's turned the other bedroom into an office, just like a sensible brother who wants his kid sister to visit at every available opportunity should," Kim said, then her face fell as she realised what she had said. "Still, he'll kick himself when we're gone."
"Okay," Billy said. "Someone switch on the computer and send an email to both Kat and Aisha, preferably the same one. I don't think we should be making cross-continental telephone calls when Kim's brother has to pay the bill." Trini walked over to the computer, then said, frowning,
"Why doesn't this go in the office, Kim?" She rolled her eyes, and replied,
"He has two. His laptop is in the office."
"Right, Trini's on that one. Rocky, do you want to ring Adam and Tanya, tell them to meet us here in about twenty minutes?"
Rocky pointed at the computer. "Trini's on it, I won't be able to use the phone."
"Here, use my cell," Tommy said, throwing it over to Rocky who was on the other side of the room. Rocky consulted a scrap of paper and then dialled a number.
The five who had nothing to do simply sat around waiting for the two busy people to report back to them. All engaged in their own thoughts as to what would happen if Adam, Tanya, Kat and Aisha wanted to join their merry cavalry, and what would happen if they didn't.
From: khart447
To: kathilliard, acampbell552
Subject: Come home NOW
Date: September 22, 2001
This is Trini using Kim's e-mail address. We need both of you to be back in Angel Grove within the month, preferably now or as soon as you can. The original five (Jason, Zack, Billy, Kim and I) have been approached by the FBI to recruit all of the Earth Rangers except Justin and all those who followed. There was information that was kept from us during our days as the most famous heroes on Earth, and we are needed to help defeat this evil.
Not to put any pressure on you or anything, but there has been a threat made against our lives if we do not recruit all of you. Billy thinks they won't go through with it, but Jason isn't so sure.
Rocky and Tommy are already in. Rocky is phoning Adam and Tanya as I write, and it sounds as though they're coming over here to sort things out.
If we don't hear from you in a week, we'll seek permission to teleport and bring you back, or at least I will. This is urgent, and we need you both.
On a lighter note, hope you are all well.
SEE YOU SOON Trini xxx
Rocky pressed the END button and threw the phone back to its owner who caught it in midair. "They're on their way, although I have to warn you Adam sounded pretty pissed at the entire thing, as in it doesn't sound as though he wants to be involved."
"Well, let's see if our 'Please help us otherwise we'll be dead' line has any effect on him then," Kim said, perching on the side of the overstuffed sofa. "Have you finished the email yet, Trini?"
"Uh-huh. I'll leave it on there for a while to see if we get any reply."
"How long do you think it will take them to get here, Rocky?" Jason asked. Now that they had two definite acceptances, the fear of impending doom was easing, especially as one of them had been his biggest doubt, Tommy. Jason knew that he had done the right thing in letting Kim go to persuade him, but now he had to face opposition in two cases he hadn't considered as a threat, Adam and Tanya.
"About ten, twenty minutes. Depends how bad the city traffic is," Rocky said. "Kim, have you got any food?"
"Check the kitchen," Kim said absently, having replaced Trini at the computer. "If there's none there, then no."
"Ha ha ha," Rocky said, walking out the door in search for food.
"What are you going to do if Adam and Tanya say no?" Tommy asked worriedly. He had faith in Adam and Tanya, and just hoped that it was the shock that had prompted the original dismissal.
"Pray that Kat and Aisha can make it," Zack said. "If we're only missing two, then we can still be a formidable force against evil, we'd be more than any Ranger team ever was. If we're missing four then we're going to be in deep shit, pardon my french."
"I thought Aisha was in Angel Grove," Trini said.
"She is, but she's out of town for a bit," Rocky said, coming back into the room with a bag of Twinkies in his hand. "Hence the e-mail. And I know that she's definitely not back, cos I got an email from her last night."
"That's that, then," Jason said. "Kim, keep checking your e-mail to see if we get any reply."
"Or, I could sit here until it's no longer 4 am in England and Kat will not be asleep and be conscious to get her e-mail," Kim said. "If she's on a scholarship then she's not going to be up at 4 am."
"Less of the sarcasm," Jason said, making a face at her. "We need to be prepared for what can happen."
"Like what, all four of them turning us down?" Trini said, chewing on her lower lip. "I still don't understand why they need so many of us anyway, not after all this time."
"Brute force?" Billy suggested. "But I have no idea why they need us, why they can't just get more experienced agents in to do whatever it is they have planned for us. And I have even less of an idea about the death threats against us. Do you think it would extend to those who turn them down?"
"What did the person who made the threat actually say to you?" Tommy asked.
"'If you don't bring back all the Rangers by October 15, there will be severe repercussions that will result in wreaths being sent to your parents' was the phrase used I believe," Kim said, looking at Tommy, refusing to let her emotions get the better of her. They had a job to do, and it would ruin the entire operation if they got involved. Never mind the fact that he probably didn't even want her anyway...
"So I guess they're serious then," Rocky said through a mouthful of Twinkie. "Don't think that I'm being funny, but do you think that the threat would extend to Tommy and I, if the other four refuse to do anything?"
Jason shrugged. "I have no idea. I can't even attempt to second-guess them on this one, we'll just have to wait."
*Adam Park's Toyota*
*September 22, 2001*
"Adam, what the hell does this mean?" Tanya asked her boyfriend as they travelled through the busy streets of Angel Grove in the middle of rush hour. "Do we have to give up college, tell our parents, what?"
"I don't know," Adam said quietly. "All Rocky really said that I could understand was that the original five had been brought to one of their colonies in New Mexico, and told that they were needed to turn people back into good again. If he was exaggerating at all then I'm not getting involved, and I don't think that you should either."
"I don't want to get involved anyway," Tanya said in the same quiet tone. "But if it's serious then we owe it to Zordon, we owe it to those Rangers still in battle. I can't forget all that we did Adam, and I think you're trying to."
"I'm not trying to forget it," Adam said irritably as the car ground to a halt, mimicking traffic all around them. "I'm just moving on."
"And what's the difference?" Tanya asked, calling him on his excuse. "I've moved on from our Ranger days and I think we all have, at least the ones that we still see. Yet I've never tried to block out the memories of what happened, because we shouldn't. If you want to move on you have to air your concerns and talk about them."
"You can tell that you're taking Psychology," Adam said. "I do talk about it with you though, that's why I think that I'm moving on."
Tanya rolled her eyes. "Whatever you say, but I want you to know one thing before we get to Kim's brother's house."
"And what's that?"
"I'm going with my feelings on this one. Once I've heard what it's all about I'll be making my own decision, and you won't have any power to stop me."
"Why couldn't I have found an obedient girlfriend?" Adam asked to the heavens.
*345 Pawlett Road*
"Come on in, you guys," Kim said, and ushered Adam and Tanya into the room where the other six were waiting. "I'll let someone else tell you about what's going on."
As soon as they walked in, Tanya knew that whatever was going on, it was the real thing, and serious. All seven of their friends were unsmiling, and both Trini and Kim looked pale and scared. "Why are we here?"
Jason sighed, and said, "I guess it's me this time. What did Rocky tell you?"
"That you original five were taken to one of the FBI colonies in New Mexico and told that you were needed to defend the world again, or words to that effect." Adam replied. "I don't see where we come in, to tell you the truth."
"You're needed too," Jason said, breaking the news to them. Tanya looked unsurprised, and he couldn't read Adam's expression, something inbetween shock, fear, and disbelief. "We were told to get all the Earth Rangers up to Tanya back to the colony before October 15, or we'd be dead."
"Dead?" Tanya whispered. "Why do they need all of us?"
"They managed to crack one of the codes that was used to encrypt a disk left behind in the Command Center," Billy explained. "From that they found out our identities, how to access teleportation, which by the way is how we got to the colony, and also things that hadn't been told to us before. The only thing that concerns us is the fact that there is evidence humans made deals with Zedd and Rita to save their lives. We don't know what kind of deals, or who the humans are."
"What I think is that they didn't want to tell us too much in case we couldn't get you guys in after having told you everything," Jason said. "But we need to know more than that if we're to do our jobs properly."
"And you guys just sat there and said, 'Yes, we'll let our lives be taken over by the FBI'?" Adam demanded. "Just like that?"
"We were all for walking out, let me tell you Adam," Zack said. "And we almost did, until we got the death threat made against our lives unless we got you guys to the colony. Let me assure you that we didn't just sit there and take it."
Tanya's decision was instantaneous. "I'm in."
All eyes turned to Adam. He didn't want to give up his career, his friends, his family, in essence his entire life. But then again, he didn't want to see his friends killed because he had wanted to save himself instead of the world. Reluctantly, he nodded and said "I guess that's me too then."
Relief flooded the room, and those who were in fear for their lives shared a smile, before Trini broke the happy mood.
"Kim, any e-mail while we were talking?"
Kim turned back to the computer, and was extremely surprised to see that both friends had already replied. "Trini, consider my words to be officially eaten. Even Kat's replied."
"Read them out," Tanya urged. Kim clicked on the icon, and within moments the first email appeared on screen.
"This is Aisha's" Kim announced.
From: acampbell552
To: khart447
Subject: I'm in
If there is any threat to your life, to any of your lives, how can you think I wouldn't be there? I'm in LA at the moment but I'll be back in Angel Grove at the weekend. I'll let Rocky know when and where exactly.
Chin up you guys, we'll get through this one somehow.
"I knew she'd come through," said Rocky jubilantly, punching a fist in the air.
"What about Kat?" Adam asked. Kim clicked again, and said, "Here goes,"
From: kathillliard
To: khart447
Subject: Re: Come home NOW
Despite the fact that it's 4.15 am, I'm up. Once I got your e mail I started packing. I'll be in Angel Grove as soon as I can, let me know where to go as soon as you can.
"We have the best friends in the world," Kim said. "I can't believe that everyone is still willing to risk everything just because some FBI guy in a grey suit made a death threat."
"We're still a team," Tommy pointed out. "No matter how bad we are at keeping in contact, we've gone through things that should keep us together for life. Now, it's time to get back to business."
