The knocks continued as everyone remained silent and still. Perhaps they would just go away, when no one answered the door. But that wasn't happening, the person or persons seemed very determined to come in.

"Wes, was someone supposed to stop by today?" asked Eric.

Wes thought about it for a moment and then turned to Jen. Both their faces became very alert. "Oh no!" both of them said.

That was something no one wanted to hear. Wes and Jen turned back, looking at the others. "It's Jason, Kim and Rocky, we were going to have brunch with them today…I forgot all about it," said Wes, knowing this wasn't good. He had a feeling it wouldn't be good getting them involved, even though Jason already knew about Tommy. But they knew once Kim found out it would only lead to trouble and perhaps heartbreak on both sides.

The knocks continued over and over. Everyone's hearts were racing. "Maybe they'll just go away…" and just as Justin said that...

"Rocky. I can't believe you did that, they might not be home!" yelled Kim, she was holding onto Trent and Jason had Tom in his arms.

"It's not like I broke in, I used the key. And besides I'm hungry," said Rocky as he placed the key back under the mat and pushed open the door.

Rocky started in and found Wes and Jen sitting in the living room. He then noticed they weren't alone. He saw Eric sitting in a chair off to the side and saw the backs of three others who were sitting on the couch.

Jason and Kim followed behind Rocky. "Oh. You guys have company..." said Rocky.

Wes looked up at them. "Sorry guys, but this really isn't a good time," said Wes.

"No..." Tommy sighed. Jason had seen him before, and he knew they too needed to know, no matter how painful it would be. "They should know," Tommy stood up and turned around to face them.

Kim and Rocky just stood frozen in time, they couldn't believe it. It was Tommy. Here, alive.

"Tommy?... Tommy!" Kim, feeling overwhelmed with emotions, quickly handed Trent to Rocky and went running towards Tommy, tears in her eyes. She threw her arms around him, holding him close to her. "I thought I lost you forever," she cried.

Tommy hesitated at first, unsure of what he should do. He felt joyful and uncomfortable at the same time. It wasn't her fault, she didn't know. He slowly put his arms around her, but it didn't feel the same. It was as if they were two strangers hugging each other for the first time.

Jason looked right at Eric and saw something he didn't like. Something in his eyes told him there was more to this, more than they ever dreamed. What Tommy had been trying to tell him was real. Both he and Rocky watched as the other two strangers stood up and showed themselves to the two. Both of them were more than just shocked to find one of them being Jen, as far as they knew Jen had no twin sister. But the other came as an even bigger shock for Rocky. He stepped forward, not believing who he was seeing.

"Justin?"

Justin didn't answer, just shook his hand and gave a faint smile.

Tommy pulled away from Kim and slightly pushed her away from him. She looked up at him, hurt and confused. Something was wrong. Even the way he held her was different. Tommy sighed heavily. He hated doing this to her, but he just couldn't… "I'm sorry. But I'm not Tommy." He bit his lip seeing the confusion in her eyes. "At least not the Tommy you knew..."

Kim shook her head. What was he talking about? "W-What do you mean?" she asked on the verge of tears. He just had to be Tommy. He looks and sounds just like him. It just had to be her Tommy.

In the next few moments everyone found a seat and sat down, with Tommy, Justin and Jen being the center of attention. Tommy turned, looking at both Justin and Jen, making sure they were ready for this, or at least halfway ready. It had been hard to explain to Eric what had happened to them and even harder for Eric to listen. He nodded his head; it was time, time for them to tell their story of a different ending, an ending that had cost millions of lives.

"We're not from around here, which is why another Jen and Justin are exist and why I'm here, alive…" Tommy started.

"Call it another dimension or even an alternate universe. Call it whatever you want…" Justin added.

Tommy nodded his head. "Yeah….You see, when the CellBorgs came to our home things didn't turn out the same as they did here... We come from a dark and lonely place. Where we are all that is left of the human race. The CellBorgs quickly took over, wiping out every power ranger and human. Some humans were even put under control, from the technology they gathered from the morphers they figured out how to make a small device, so small it's not visible by the naked eye. There was nothing we could do. We had to take them out… They had been turned into mindless robots doing whatever bidding the CellBorgs ordered them to." Tommy bowed his head down.

"How long have you been here? Why haven't you tried to contact us before?" asked Wes.

"We've been here about two months now. We hadn't planned on coming here, we had hoped we had found a way to travel back in time with the technology from Jen's and Justin's morphers combined, but we ended up here." Tommy sighed; they had hoped they could change what had happened, but sometimes things don't work out the way you want them to. "We weren't sure what had happened here; for all we knew the CellBorgs could have already taken over and placed mind control implants into every human."

"Why were you trying to go back in time? Here, we were able to defeat the CellBorgs, but wouldn't it have turned out the same where you're from?" asked Kim.

Tommy sighed heavily, the guilt of that day still haunted him, and would haunt him until his dying day. The room was silent, giving Tommy and the others time, time to explain why none of them could sleep anymore.

And somehow Jason knew, he could just see it in Tommy's eyes. "You said no, didn't you?" asked Jason. His voice was soft, almost a whisper.

Tommy looked up and met Jason's eyes, and nodded his head. His eyes then fell on Kim. "Yes I did. I said no, and because of that it's all gone…….." Tommy sighed as the memory of that day unfolded in his mind. He could still hear Zordon's words play over in his mind, and he could still see the look on Billy's face.

"Tommy…" Billy struggled. He hated having to do this, but he didn't have much of a choice.

Tommy shook his head no. He had made his decision and it was final. In the past he had dropped everything to do the bidding of others, but this time he just couldn't do that. "I know why you contacted us, Billy, but I'm sorry. I..I just can't do it..." He turned, looking over at Kim, only a couple months pregnant. "I can't leave Kim behind, not with a baby on the way." Tommy sighed heavily and turned his attention back to Billy, "So I'm sorry, the answer is no..." Tommy would never forget the look on Billy's face. Although he knew Billy understood his decision, he knew he was very shocked and surprised, it was so unlike him. But some things were more important, or so he thought.

"I...I understand…." The connection with Billy then ended.

Tommy ran his hands over the top of his head and down his face. He could kill himself for saying no. Everyone could tell that wasn't the end of it, there was more, lots more and they knew this story did not have a happy ending.

"Then what happened?" asked Rocky. Kim slapped Rocky over the head.

"Give him time, Rocky, can't you see this is upsetting him?" said Kim.

Tommy looked at Kim for a moment. She still was caring and loving, just as he remembered. Always thinking of him first, being there for him, just as she was back in high school, but the only difference now was she wasn't his. "I can see it even now. Watching the battle on the screen with Kim and Aisha. Explosions were going off all over the place, smoke and fire was everywhere…I remember hearing their screams, the pain, the fear, all of it. I can still see it over and over….."

The fire and smoke was so powerful that it almost felt like their eyes were burning just from watching it on the screen. Or perhaps it was just the sensation of what they knew would come next. Tommy, Aisha and Kim watched as their friends fell in battle. The rangers had collapsed, force-demorphing into a huge explosion.

"NOOOO!" cried Tommy, Kim and Aisha. They watched for long moments waiting for movement, but saw none, only the lifeless, half burnt bodies of once prized heroes. There was a long moment of silence. The command center never had been so quiet until now. It just couldn't end like this…

"Zola, are they...?" asked Aisha. There was fear in her voice.

"I am sorry, rangers. I no longer sense them in the morphing grid," answered Zola.

The command center fell silent once again; none of them ever thought it was possible. They couldn't be gone. The power rangers can't be defeated, but indeed they were. The mighty power rangers had come to an end in one huge explosion, it all had ended before their very eyes. And they all wondered how long would it be until the other ranger teams fall in battle? How would it end for them?

Tommy held Kim close to him, turning her head away from the screen. He could feel his heart aching deep inside. It hurt even to breathe and he knew this pain would never go away. He watched as the flames continued to burn, his face cringed up and tears sparkled in his eyes. "It can't be…..Please..." he cried.

Aisha eyes sparkled with tears as she watched the CellBorgs walk around the lifeless bodies of her friends, people she had come to love. There was nothing left of them, Zordon's once proud legacy was gone. "I'm so sorry, guys.." she cried.

The next events that took place Tommy would never forget, as if they were forever imprinted in his very soul. He and Kim were holding onto each other for support for the loss of their friends. That's when they heard it, a blood curdling scream. Aisha's scream startled both of them. That's when they saw it, those red glowing eyes staring right at them. The CellBorgs somehow must have logged onto the morphing grid through the morphers and found them here.

Aisha never had a chance, both Tommy and Kim watched as the CellBorgs blasted at her several times over, without even a thought. They watched as she collapsed to the ground, and with her last breath...

"Run…" Aishia's head then dropped, her eyes closed shut forever...

AISHA!" cried Kim, tears running down her cheeks. She had started to run towards her fallen friend, but Tommy held her back.

Tommy shoved Kim behind him, his heart was racing with fear. He never had been so scared in all his life. He could fight them, but there were too many. There would be no way for him to defeat all of them. Tommy knew they might only have one chance. "Zola, set the command center for self-destruct!" He hated to do it; the command center might be their only link to know how the world as well as the other ranger teams were doing, but it was their only chance.

"Setting for self-destruct, you'll have about five minutes to get out of here, Tommy and Kimberly. Good luck and may the power protect you…" Those were the last words Tommy and Kim ever heard from Zola. He turned to Kim, grabbing her hand, just as the CellBorgs started to approach the two.

"Come on Kim, we have to get out of here," said Tommy. He started for the exit, but Kim wouldn't move.

"What about Aisha, we can't leave her..." cried Kim. She just couldn't leave her best friend behind.

Tommy turned and looked back over at Aisha's bloody body. He sighed heavily; he hated to leave her behind, just as much as Kim did. But there was no time. Tommy turned back, looking at Kim, heartbroken. "There's nothing we can do for her, she's gone…" he said softly.

Kim took one last look at Aisha, hoping to see her move or even say something. But no movement or words came, she really was gone.

Tommy stopped; it was almost too much for him. It was like watching a movie all over again, only he knew this movie didn't end happily. His eyes were red and weary from restless sleep haunted by guilt and nightmares.

It was a terrible sight for everyone to watch. No one ever thought it would be possible to see Tommy scarred up inside. It was the hardest of all on Kim. Her heart just hurt so much that all she wanted to do was run to him, throw her arms around him and make everything better, but somehow she knew that wasn't going to work, not this time.

Jen and Justin both knew this was hard on Tommy, to tell his part in the nightmare they had all lived. Jen grabbed a hold of his hand and gave it a squeeze and Justin patted Tommy gently on the shoulder.

"I'm okay. I just need a minute…" Tommy assured them. He then dried his eyes clean. He took a deep breath, preparing to finish his story of how he lost it all. "….We were running. Kim and I. Running like we never had before. All I could think about was getting her out of there, getting her to safety. But there were so many after us. I wasn't sure how much time was left, and that's when we heard it. A huge explosion….We stopped just for a moment, but it all happened so fast….The walls began to shake. The ground above us was starting to give way, dirt and rocks were sliding down….God, I tried so hard to get her out of there, but I never saw it coming." Tommy bit his lip hard. "A large piece of rock fell on top of my head. Everything was going so fast, spinning all around, then it all went black. I thought I had a hold of her…." He cried, feeling tears rush down his face.

Tommy awoke with his head throbbing and vision slightly blurry. He placed his hand right on the spot where the rock had hit him; he felt something wet. He moved his hand away and stared at it. It was blood. "Ah man." Then something hit him, a greater fear that was worse than blood, Kim. "Oh no! Kim!" He searched around frantically for her. "Kimberly! Kim!" he cried out. She was nowhere in sight. Tommy's heart was racing, she couldn't be... He couldn't have lost her too. Tommy then looked behind him in the direction he had come from. But she wasn't there, only a pile of dirt and rocks blocking the way back in. Tommy shook his head no. "NO!" he yelled.

He began digging and moving the rocks, one at a time. His fingers were bleeding, but he didn't care, that pain did not compare to losing Kim. He wasn't prepared for what happened next, the next rock he moved.

"Oh God. No!" he cried. There was Kim, or what was left of her. She had been crushed, probably dead instantly, at least that's what Tommy hoped. He could never forgive himself if she had died in pain. His hands shook as he went to touch her cheek. It felt so cold. Her face was covered in blood and dirt. "I'm so sorry…"He had not only lost his friends and wife this day, but he also lost his child and anything else that he had once valued. Tommy just sat there, crying. His eyes never left Kim's face. He stayed there for a long time; it could have been a few hours or even days. He didn't remember; all he knew was that from that day on his life would never be the same again. It was a nightmare he would never be able to escape. It would go on forever... And there was no going back.