I have two things to say.

I don't own the rangers.

And school sucks

On with the story!



When Billy awoke the next morning, the first thing he did was rerun the tests, but unfortunately, the test results were the same. His two best friends were dying.

He started making theories, trying to think of ways that they could both be dying and in the exact same way. Their bodies were vapidly falling apart; their life force was being drained, much like when Jason had held the Gold Zeo powers. However, it seemed this time the drainage was a lot slower, which hopefully meant they had time to find a cure.

The first possibility that came to mind was the ranger powers. Losing the power was like going cold turkey. Could it be possible that losing the powers had caused Jason and Kim to fall apart in the most literal sense of the words? /No way/ his mind decided. If so, then Tommy would have done it when he lost the Green powers for good and Billy, Trini, Zack, and Aisha would have felt it too. To his knowledge, which was very vast, they hadn't. So that idea was dismissed.

The next possibility was that it was because they had had two different types of powers mixed in their bodies. Jason had remnants of the Red Morphin and Gold Zeo powers in his blood stream. Kimberly had remnants of the Pink Morphin and Pink Crane Ningette powers in her blood stream. Was it possible that the mix of two different powers was causing this? Again, Billy had to dismiss the theory. If that were true, it would be happening to him, as well as Aisha. He didn't even think about the current rangers, they probably wouldn't have a problem.

His last and final theory had more of a chance of being true than any of the others. The last possibility was that it was because of the Gold Zeo powers and the fact no human could hold them. It would explain why Jason was dying, but what about Kim? Billy thought it over for a few minutes. Suddenly he remembered what had led him to discovery of Kim and Jason dying; the theory that Kim and Jason might be twins. Billy knew there was three ways of determining blood relations. 1) Doing a blood test with the local hospital, the way Tommy and David had done. 2) Doing a search for adoption papers and birth certificates. Or 3) Do a blood test in the Power Chamber. Billy dismissed the first two options, blood tests at the hospital cost money, which he didn't have and doing a search would take too much time. So he was left with choice number three: do the test in the Power Chamber.

He gathered up all his papers and immediately teleported to the Power Chamber. Once he rematerialized, he turned to the face of his mentor.

"Zordon, can I do a few tests? I'm sure you know why, your good at that." Zordon chuckled, although his eyes held a serious and troubled look.

"Yes Billy you may use the Power Chamber resources to determine whether or not Kim and Jason are related and why the two are slowly dying." Billy nodded grateful he didn't have to explain everything.

As quickly as he could, Billy took two samples of blood out of containment, one vial of Kim's, one of Jason's. As soon he got everything ready, he set up the computer to note traces of identical genes in the two blood samples. Once that was done, the computer would give an estimate of how close the two were related. Unfortunately, it would take three hours for the results to be determined. Zordon convinced Billy to go to the Youth Center to wait.

After teleporting to the Youth Center undetected, he took a seat at the juice bar, trying to hide from the other rangers who looked like they were not in a good mood.

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Kim walked into the Youth Center and immediately knew something wasn't right. The air was thick with tension. Looking around, she saw the reason why. Jason and Adam were sitting at a table on one side of the room, while Rocky, Kat, Tanya, and very pist off Tommy were sitting at the other. Jason and Tommy kept shooting glares at each other, while everyone else in the gym was shooting looks at them.

Kim sighed. She went directly towards Adam and Jason. She was nearly at the table when she glimpsed out the corner of her eye a carefully neutral expression as Tommy watched the three. Shaking her head in dismay she sat down

Looking from one to the other she finally gave up and asked. "What happened?" Adam sighed. She knew then whatever it was, it was Bad, with a capital B!

"Tommy and Jason were talking. Tommy said something along the lines that if Jase was any friend, he wouldn't hang out with Tommy's ex. namely you. Jason told him you've been his best friend since you were in third grade and he wasn't about to ditch such a long friendship because Tommy was pissed at you. They started arguing, rather loudly too, and then Tommy lost his temper and punched Jason in the stomach. He told Jason that he had no idea how hard his life was, with being adopted, having his ex girlfriend who he loved just toss him to the sharks for another guy in a cruel letter and not having many friends until he moved here.

Jason got fed up told Tommy was wrong, that he wasn't the only one with a screwed up life and that whatever he might think, the world didn't revolve around him. Then he stalked here over to this table and I followed. Tommy asked and I quote, 'what the hell are you doing?' unquote. I glared at him and told him to 'fuck off.'" Adam told her, a little too calmly. Kimberly blinked. She blinked again. And once more for good measure.

"Our little Froggy got a mouth while I was away." Kimberly said, dryly.

"No, this little Froggy had a mouth he just chose not to use it for swearing." Adam retorted. Kimberly raised an eyebrow.

"Really? What did you use your mouth for when you weren't using it to swear?" she asked him with a dirty grin. Adam went red as Jason and Kim both snickered. Kimberly glanced over at the ranger table and caught Tommy's eye. She remembered what Tommy had said to Jason and was suddenly filled with such anger that she got up and without a backward glance, stalked over to her ex- boyfriend.

In no time at all she was standing behind Tommy. She spun him around on the chair and slapped him across the face. She heard gasps of shock from people behind her. She ignored it. Staring straight at Tommy, she started talking.

"Thomas Edward Oliver lets get one thing straight. You have no right, none at all, to order Jason to not talk with me. It's your way, or the highway, and none of us, me, Jason, or Adam is going to stand for it any longer. You wouldn't have such good friends if it wasn't for Jason. All four of us, Trini, me, Billy, and Zack had doubts about letting you in our group; I mean how could we forgive you? You had been a bad ass who was a complete jerk to us. And suddenly you're sorry for what you did? Don't even try arguing that you had no control. I've looked it up."

Here her voice dropped so that only the rangers could here what she said next. "In order for it to have worked, you had to have had a strong surge of anger at us. Envy, jealousy, fright. It had to be something strong. It's the only way the spell would've worked. You've been jealous of Jason and the friendship we all had since the moment you laid eyes on us." Jason came up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder. She took a few deep breaths, calmed down enough so that she wouldn't throttle her former boyfriend, and continued.

"And the letter was my choice. My feelings toward you were zip by the time I left. I fell out of love with you even before the blond bimbo came. But I had to play the ever so happy girlfriend otherwise your ego would suffer and the group would suffer. Now, I do have a conscious, so I would be upset if my being happy, caused others to unnecessarily suffer. I did fall in love with someone else, it just happened before I left Angel Grove. And no it's not Jason. That's just gross. No offence Jase. Anyway, that's one of the reason's I left. So I could get away from him. And you. I couldn't deal with you anymore. You were a complete and utter prick.

Now, this little thing about how the world sucks and you got the bad end of the deal? You're not the only one. At least you found biological family. I would kill to have a family who was really mine." Seeing the shocked and puzzled look on his face she elaborated.

"I was adopted, Tommy. My mom and dad adopted me when I was a month old. You would've known when you told me about your adoption, but you were lamenting how the world owed you and I couldn't get a word in edgewise. Now that you know what our relationship really was, know this. Until you come to the great conclusion that the world doesn't revolve around you and you pull the stick from your ass, stay away from us. And by us, I mean Jason, Adam, and myself. Once you get over yourself and apologize, and you DO owe us an apology, you can hang. Until then, see ya!" with that she swept out of the room, Jason and Adam following close behind.

Once outside, she was swept up in a hug from a highly proud Jason. After about a moment's hesitation, Adam joined the hug. Soon, another pair of arms wrapped themselves into the hug. Kim looked up into the amused eyes of Billy. She finally broke down and started laughing and crying at the same time. After she was done and had wiped the tears from her eyes, she looked up into Adam's face. Her eyes locked with his for about thirty seconds before she grinned.

"I've wanted to say that for so long. And did you see his face?" Adam chuckled and nodded. He grinned down at her.

"I think the Froggy wasn't the only one who got some courage while you were in Florida. The Falcon was scared of the Crane." Kim shook her head.

"I didn't get courage while I was in FLA." Seeing the skeptical looks she was getting, she grinned proudly.

"I got an attitude."