Disclaimer : I own nothing more than the story plot and the story idea…and any characters that you might not recognize from the Power Rangers Universe would be mine also.

A/N : This chapter is going to be the prelude for the spin off based on Rocky and Isabel…a lot of questions are going to be raised in this chapter and you, the reader, are going to be wondering even more about what the secrets are that Isabel is hiding from the gang as well as what exactly happened to Brenda and why Iz blames herself for her sister's death. There will be a lot of unanswered questions in this chapter that will be answered in the spin off, which will be titled 'Dark Shadows…Hidden Light.' Review as always…I thrive on reviews! Thanks.

THE POWER RANGERS IN :

THE HARDEST THING I EVER DID

PART II

Chapter 7 : Resurrection

Thunder rumbled in the distance, the ground shaking gently beneath their feet. It did not deter them from their coarse. Lightning flashed through the gray swirling mists, momentarily brightening the deepening depths with its electrical fire. Then all was dark again save for the beautifully illuminating light radiating from the distance. They continued to walk toward it, unsure if the young woman was following them or not.

She is not meant to be here, the one thought-spoke to the other.

It will ultimately be her own decision if she stays or goes back. We are not permitted to make it for her, you know that. The other though-spoke back. The decision lies in her own hands.

I know…but it is not her time.

That is not up to us. We are only here to guide her, no more… no less. The decision lies in her own hands. Only she can decide if she wants to stay or go back.

I know, but still…

There are no buts…

Yes, but-

The other turned to look at her companion. We cannot interfere. We will not interfere. Our role here is to help her, nothing more. In the end, the decision will be up to her…only she can chose what path her destiny will follow.

They were two ethereal creatures. They had no physical form, at least not one that could be described by man's eyes or his language. Simply put, they were muted light, sparkling from an inner power source. They were bright light and dim light all at once with a mosaic of sparkling colors intermixed, like light refracting from a prism. Yet, they were so much more.

If they had still retained their human forms, the one would have looked almost exactly like Isabel, the other like a friend Kim hadn't seen in almost exactly ten years. Their human forms had shimmered and dissolved as soon as they had started to walk toward the blindingly bright light.

But-

There are no buts, remember that. We are not permitted to interfere.

You interfered once.

Yes, and I paid dearly for it too. My sister still pays the price for my mistake. She will never have an honest relationship until she can overcome that part of her life.

But you told Kim-

I know what I told Kim!

Then…there was a momentary pause, did you lie?

There came a sound like an exasperated sigh, We are not here to talk about Isabel and myself. We are here to help Kim. She is our focal point now, nothing else.

All right. The thought came out almost like a muted sigh.

Good, now that we have that clear, let us go. We have much to do…

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Come back to me Beautiful! The words echoed all around her, even through her. It's not your time Kimberly, she could still hear either Vicky or Brenda's words echoing around too. "If it's not my time then what am I doing here?" she cried out in despair. "Why am I here?" Her head thrown back, her arms raised to the sky, as if beseeching anyone to attempt to answer her questions for her. The thunder rumbled once more and lightning streaked across the sky in all its electrical intensity, as if in answer to her spoken challenge.

"You are here to make a choice." Isabel's voice, but yet there was a different tone to it. The Australian accent was gone, as if it had never been there.

She whirled around, looking for the speaker. She saw no one at first, then the dark mists parted and two glowing beings stepped forward, toward her. They were like stars that had suddenly taken human form, or something there near of. "What the…?" the question was not fully spoken and it hung in the air not fully formed.

The taller star-being raised what could only be described as its arm, as if forestalling any further sounds from the confused woman. The sparkling light coalesced and fused into the human form of Brenda once more. The other star humanoid shimmered brightly before becoming Victoria. "Now, you were saying?" Brenda asked as she turned her sparkling blue eyes toward Kim. Her eyes seemed to sparkle so brightly that they glowed.

We frightened her, Vicky thought-spoke to Brenda. She is not use to seeing me in this form since I departed from the life she knew me in.

It does not matter…her choice will be made soon.

But still-

Enough with the buts, there will be no more. We will do our job here and then return home…with or without her. "Sit." Brenda instructed as she motioned to a chair that had not been there just a second before.

Kim listened and sat down on it. "What are you?" she asked, still looking in amazement at the two of them. She recognized the both of them…or at least who they looked like.

"Kim, it's me, Victoria." Vicky said as she and Brenda took seats opposite of Kim.

"But you're dead…" Kim's voice trailed off. "So am I."

"Not entirely. You have the choice right now to live or not. It is up to you, no one else can make that decision for you." Brenda said.

Kim regarded her for a fraction of a second. "And just who are you really?" She asked, "I know you said that you're Isabel's twin sister and all, but no one ever said anything to me about her having a twin."

"You've just recently met her." Brenda responded. "There are a lot of things that you don't know about Isabel and there are lot of things about you that Isabel doesn't know, even though she has heard all the stories that have been told of you and the original Rangers."

"You know…about us?"

"Yes," came the answer. "There is not much that we do not know up there," she answered as she pointed her hand toward the brightly shining portal in the distance. "As for me and Isabel, yes I am her twin sister. I was kidnapped when we were three years old, maybe just a bit younger, and died soon thereafter-"

"Then why do you look as old as she is now?" Kim asked.

"I chose to look this way." Brenda responded. "I will tell you no more of myself or Isabel, if she wants you to know, you will have to ask her yourself. She can tell you." Brenda said. "All I can tell you is that she blames herself for my death, please tell her it wasn't her fault. I don't blame her so she shouldn't blame herself either."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why does she blame herself for you death?"

"If she wants you to know she will have to tell you herself."

"Oh."

"Now, you have an important decision to make." Brenda said, as she looked first at Vicky than over to Kim. "Will you go with us, pass over to a better place? Or will you return to a world where you are loved, where people still need you."

"I want to…" she turned to look at Vicky, their eyes clashing momentarily then looking way. Her gaze came to rest on Brenda, her likeness to Isabel was uncanny. "How close were you and Isabel?" she had to stall, anyhow possible, and maybe if she could find out some more about Isabel and Brenda she could figure out what this weird feeling was she was suddenly getting.

Brenda's eyes widened then narrowed as she looked intently at the petite gymnast. "Our relationship with each other is unimportant right now, your decision is. You must make your choice, and quickly. The longer you are away from your body the harder it will be for you to return if you chose too. There will be consequences to face if you hesitate to long."

"What-fer consequences?" Kimberly asked. Vicky suddenly found the uneven, drab ground to be extremely interesting, she refused to meet Kim's eyes. Kim directed her gaze instead then to Brenda. "What are the consequences?" she repeated.

"You do not want to know." Brenda answered. "Wait to long and you will find out…and the consequences are not easily dealt with when they come to find you."

"When they…" there was an audible sound of a gulp, "come to find you?"

"Yes, if you wait to long to return to your body, the consequences will come to find you. You will have to deal with them…if you succeed, you live. If you do not…you…" her voice trailed off, the hint of what would happen hung heavily in the air.

"The decision is yours Kimberly." Vicky finally spoke up.

Beautiful, you can't leave me, you have to come back. His voice echoed through the mists.

Tommy…always there would be Tommy. If there was no other reason to return, he should be enough. Kim turned her dark eyes to regard Vicky. Their eyes met and Vicky could read the answer there in the chocolate brown depths of Kim's eyes.

"You have made a choice?" Brenda asked.

"Yes, I have."

"Good, what is it?"

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"Excuse me sir?" the nurse said as she tried once again to unsuccessfully dislodge the extremely upset young man from the lifeless body of the latest victim of the tragedy that day. "Excuse me sir?" her voice was just a bit more forceful.

Tommy raised tear redden eyes to regard the woman dispassionately. "What?" he asked, his voice hoarse from the tears.

"I need to take her down to the morgue." the nurse said, her voice just as dispassionate as what Tommy's had been.

"No you won't!" Tommy said, his voice suddenly was as cold as ice. "You're just gonna leave her alone!"

"I can't just leave a body sitting up here out in the open like this. It's unsanitary." The nurse said quite huffily.

"You are not taking her anywhere!" Tommy growled, his voice sounding ragged.

The nurse stared down her nose at him, her eyes narrowing in either anger or disgust. "I must move the body down to the morgue to free up more space here in the emergency room." she said slowly and succinctly.

"I don't care!" Tommy roared as he suddenly shot to his feet, even despite his injuries.

"Come any closer and I'll be forced to call security to escort you out of here." the nurse said as she backed away from him in sudden fear.

"Now just wait a second!" Kat said as she approached the nurse. "You don't need to do that."

"Yeah, he's just upset." Isabel said as she came up behind Kat. "He just lost a very good friend of his he hasn't seen in quite a while. Surely you can understand and cut him some slack." Her Australian accent was more defined and thicker than what Kat's was.

"I…I guess, but one of you needs to keep an eye on him, make sure he doesn't do anything stupid." the nurse's eyes regarded both Isabel and Kat coldly. "Or I'll have you all thrown out of here!"

"Wouldn't be such a good idea unless you want a really big lawsuit on your hands," Isabel said quietly to the nurse.

The nurse's eyes glared daggers at Isabel, "And just what do you mean by that? Is that a threat? I could have you thrown out of here on that alone if it was a threat!"

Isabel's lips were graced with a smile, but it didn't reach her eyes. "It wasn't meant as a threat, I'm just saying that if you try to throw him out of here when he's been ordered to stay the night for observations you could get yourself into a lot of trouble…not to mention the trouble you would get the hospital into. Think about it…do you really want to risk it?"

"Fine…but you had better not cause any trouble, you understand me?" the nurse tossed back as she stalked off down a corridor.

"Tommy?" Trini asked from his side. She looked worriedly up at Jason.

"Beautiful, you can't leave me, you have to come back!" Tommy whispered to the still body. He gently swept a few stray strands of hair from her face, the whole time never taking his eyes from her increasingly pale face. Her skin color was growing paler by the second.

"Tommy?" this time Kat tried.

"Come on Kim, you have to come back. Those doctors don't know what they're talking about it! You can't be dead." The tears were silently slipping from the corners of his eyes and falling gently onto her face. He never noticed.

"Tommy, maybe we should take you to your room." Jason said from beside him.

"I can't leave her," Tommy answered despondently. "What if she should wake up and I'm not here?"

"Tommy, she's dead. She's not going to wake up." Trini said quietly.

"No, don't say such things. She can't be…I mean look at her, really look at her. You have to be able to feel it and see it, there is still some life there, in there somewhere. There is still a chance." His voice was rough with grief.

"Tommy," Kat this time, she put a hand on his shoulder in comfort. "As much as it pains me to say this, Kim is dead. There is no chance of her waking up or coming back. The doctors have declared her legally dead."

"What about all the miracles we've seen…all the miracles we've seen on TV and other places. There is always the chance." he was grasping at straws and they all knew it.

"Death is something else entirely different Tommy. Kim is gone." Isabel said quietly.

"How would you know?" Tommy cried furiously, his gaze leveling on the single person there that had never been a ranger, who couldn't comprehend how he was feeling. "How would you know, you've never lost anyone. You can't even begin to understand what I'm going through."

Both Isabel and Kat suddenly became as pale as ghosts. Isabel stifled a sob and bolted, Kat rounded on Tommy. "How could you be so inconsiderate?!" she screamed.

Tommy was taken aback, not sure of what had happened. "I'm sorry…" he stammered just as the body beneath him groaned in pain. His look of reproach was immediately replaced by one of shock. "Kim?" he breathed, afraid the slightest sound might suddenly pop the bubble of reality.

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Isabel turned horrified eyes toward Tommy, she heard Kat gasp at the same time she did. She felt the tears well up in her eyes and before the rest of the group could see then she turn and fled. She bumped into Rocky before she made it very far in her blind dash for safety.

"Hey," he said quietly just as they heard a gasp from the rest of the group. He looked first at her and her tear filled eyes then looked over to where Tommy was trying to lift himself up off of the stretcher.

"Can we get a doctor over here?!" Trini yelled out in barely controlled glee. A huge smile broke across her beautiful face. Rocky could just make out Kim attempting to sit back up. A definite miracle.

He felt as Isabel tried to break his grip on her arms and he returned his attention back to the wounded bird within his arms. "What's wrong Iz?" he asked, his voice soft and low.

She glared up at him, but he could read her heart in her eyes. Her heart was crushed and wounded. What exactly had Tommy said to her to upset her so much? Surely his outburst about loosing someone to death couldn't have upset her that much…unless…

"Isabel?" he questioned slightly.

Her eyes darted around, as if she were looking for the easiest route of escape. "Nothing," she said below her breath. "Just leave me go, would you?" she asked, her voice frozen like ice.

"Look, Kim's alright." He said, trying to put a smile back on her face. It didn't work.

"I see…" she said quietly.

"Is that all you have to say?" he asked.

"What more do you want me to say?" she asked as the tears leaked from beneath her lowered eyelids. She bowed her head; he would not see her cry. No one would see her cry, she had dealt with that part of her life and she had moved on.

He placed a finger beneath her chin and forced her eyes up to meet his, what he read there disturbed him. The pain and confusion, the hurt and guilt…it was all there in her sparkling blue eyes, the tears streaming down her cheeks unchecked. In the four years he had known her he had never truly seen her cry and it was unsettling.

She was always so strong and confident, now she looked like a little lost child who had lost her best friend or something so much more. "What happened?" he asked.

"Nothing!" she cried and once more tried to break the grip he had on her arms. He let her go and watched as she bolted from the hospital.

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Kim groaned in pain as she sucked in a large amount of air, her lungs felt like they were on fire. "Can we get a doctor over here?!" she heard Trini yell, the joy apparent in her voice. Her head throbbed, it felt like she had been ran over by a large Semi. She could almost hear the large truck barreling down on her, then belatedly realized that the sound was the heavy footsteps of a doctor as the man shined a bright light into her eyes.

She batted his hand away along with the offensive tiny flashlight. "Do you mind?" she asked just a bit angrily.

The doctor did not move away. "I just don't get it," everyone heard him murmur. "You were dead, how is this possible?"

"A miracle." Tommy said quietly.

The doctor just looked at him, as if he didn't believe the young man…or the notion of miracles.

Kim's eyes sought out Tommy's and they locked. I came back for you, hers seemed to say. He nodded his head, as if he understood the silent message he read in them. Then she looked away and gazed over the assembled group, the tears of joy and the laughter.

She met Trini's eyes. Welcome back Kim, Trini's eyes seemed to say. Kim smiled at her oldest and best friend. Then she locked eyes with Jason. Good to see you, his eyes read. Then came Billy and Aisha, tears coursed down Aisha's cheeks, but she did nothing to wipe them away. They smiled at each other. Then her eyes met Kat's, the other woman smiled at her, the smile reaching her expressive blue eyes. Welcome home, they read. Kim smiled back at Kat. Zack was even there…as she looked around, she realized that all of her friends were there. Rocky stood in the back, his eyes kept darting toward the exit, as if he were watching for someone. Tanya and Adam stood off to the side, tears misted Adam's eyes but he refused to allow them to fall. She spied Kristin standing in the background, trying to be unobtrusive…When did she get here? Kim wondered as her eyes locked with her friend's, they smiled at one another, then Kim allowed her gaze to wonder around some more.

Tommy stood there, right next to her. He refused to leave her side, even when the doctor had asked him to move.

But one person was missing.

Tell her that I love her and miss her and that everything is going to be fine. Tell her when the call comes she must go, but she can't go alone, tell her to take Rocky with her. Please remember to tell her that, will you? The question floated to the surface, Brenda's voice serious and grave.

"Where is Isabel?" she asked.

Tommy's face immediately fell and Kat stifled a soft gasp. Did something happen?

"What?" she asked, suddenly fearing the worse. But surely if something had happened to Isabel Brenda wouldn't have asked me to deliver that message to her…would she? Kim wondered.

"Tommy upset her…" Kat said quietly.

Kim's eyes immediately sought out Tommy's. "What? How?" she asked.

"I accused her of not knowing what I was going through when the doctors were saying you were dead…she ran out of here after that." Tommy said very quietly.

Kim's eyes widened as she fought with herself to accept this new bit of news…Lay dead for just a couple of minutes and everyone around you looses their heads… "Oh Tommy, how could you?" Kim asked quietly.

"What?" Tommy asked as he looked down at Kim where she lay, the doctor still poking and prodding her. "We know so very little about her, only what she allows us to know…and Kat won't tell us much more. How was I suppose to know that she had lost someone? She never told us." Tommy said. "Besides which, you just recently met her…" his gaze lingered on her momentarily as a thought occurred to him. "How…how would you know if she lost someone or not?" he dreaded to hear the answer…actually he was scared to hear her answer.

"I met her twin sister Brenda." Kim answered.

Everyone's eyes opened wide in surprise, only Kat gave a different response to Kim's news.

"Then…then Brenda is really dead?" Kat asked, her voice just above a mere whisper. They had always suspected, but no body had ever been found…the news would devastate Isabel once she learned the truth about what had happened to her sister.

Ok, I'm sorry for the shear awkwardness of this chapter…but I had to give myself a lead up for the spin off. Many of you may not believe in ghosts and Angels and such, I do, as you can tell. I've had the fortunate opportunity to see them (ghosts)…although it was indeed very scary and a blessing as I would come to learn in later years. I hope you liked this chapter…and in case you are wondering, the death of Brenda is not the secret that Isabel is keeping. Her secret is much more darker and it eats at her each and every day. A lot of what ifs and what could have beens run through her mind regularly. You will find out how Brenda interfered in the spin off and what her interference was and how Isabel is forced to pay for that interference. Hope you enjoyed and please as always review!! Thanks greatly and I appreciate it, even if I don't say it.

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