Chapter 15: One Last Good Thing

A few weeks later, Ann told Jack Brandon's secret. "WHAT!" Jack yelled. Ann jumped at his voice. "Sorry, I just can't believe it. Brandon, my best friend, is the enemy," he mumbled. Ann nodded and their communicators went off.

"What's going on, dad?" Ann asked.

"Ann, the Green Ranger is attacking Brock and Teresa at Reefside Park," Tommy informed.

They pulled out their morphers "ANIMAL POWER!" She yelled.

"COYOTE! PINK RANGER!"

"EAGLE! RED RANGER!"

"POWER UP!"

They morphed and ran out of his house and towards the park.

When they arrived, they saw that Brock and Teresa were losing. "HEY, MONSTER BREATH!" Ann yelled. The minions looked up and they landed in front of them. However, a monster that looked like a bug. "Boy you sure are ugly," she commented.

"That's not nice to say," the monster stated.

"Oh, brother," Ann mumbled.

She gasped when a minion grabbed her and the monster came up from the ground. "Bye, bye, Pink Ranger," the monster laughed. Ann threw the minion over her shoulder and jumped out of the way as a blast came her way. She screamed as she flew backwards and hit the ground.

"ANN!" Teresa yelled.

Minions surrounded her. Ann did the splits to duck from a punch. "HAVE A NICE TRIP!" She yelled. She kicked a minion and gasped as a minion tossed her like a paper airplane across the park. Pain shot through her side and looked up to see the monster standing in front of her.

"Say goodbye, Pink Ranger," he snarled.

Ann gasped as a blast came her way. Just then, someone destroyed the monster. She opened her eyes to see Brandon standing there. "Brandon?" She asked. Brandon looked at her before falling to the ground. "NO! NOT NOW!" She yelled. She grabbed him and looked at him. "Brandon, don't leave us now, please don't leave us now," she begged.

"I'm sorry, Ann. I'm so sorry," he apologized.

"Brandon, please," she begged.

"I can't, his hold is too strong."

"You have to fight."

"I have been trying, but as the minute passes his hold grows stronger."

"Brandon please let us help you."

"You can't help me."

He disappeared and Ann felt pain hit her heart. Teresa and her friend ran over to her. "Are you okay?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Ann replied.

She stood up and powered down.

When Ann got home, Tommy stood there with Kimberly. They looked like they were talking like a top-secret way. "Ann, we have to talk," Tommy stated.

"Okay," Ann agreed.

They sat down and Kimberly stood in the doorway. "Ann, there's something you need to know. When I first became a Power Ranger. I was a Green Ranger," he started.

"Weren't there a lot of Green Rangers?" She asked.

"Let me finish."

"Sorry."

"Ann, when I first started off as the Green Ranger, I almost killed your mother and the others. Ann, I was an evil Green Ranger."

"What?"

She was in disbelief, her father was evil. "I was new to the place. Your mother's kind heart made me feel comfortable. Rita Repulsa kidnapped me when I was supposed to meet your mother at a Youth Center. I had a spell cast over me and I was her evil Green Ranger. I destroyed the control panels in the Command Center and sent their leader, Zordon, away so they wouldn't know how to defeat me. I was given a sword called the "Sword of Darkness" that way Rita could control me forever," he explained. Ann didn't want to hear anymore.

"Then you know that Brandon is the Green Ranger," she murmured.

Tommy touched her shoulder. "Yes, I do know that Brandon is the Green Ranger," he murmured. Ann shrugged his hand off and looked at him.

"Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me that Brandon was just like you, dad?" She asked.

"I didn't want you know what I did in my past. I didn't want you to go through what your mother did."

She pulled away from him and ran upstairs.

Ann buried her head in her pillow in anger. Tears of anger fell from her eyes and into her pillow. Her father kept the most important thing that could have ever been told. Kimberly opened the door and sat next to her daughter. "Ann," she whispered. Ann sat up and looked at her mother. "Ann, sweet heart, your father never told you because of this. He knows what he did all those years ago was wrong, but it wasn't his fault," she assured.

"Mom, he kept the most important thing from me. Information that could've prepared me for this. Did something like this happen again?" Ann asked.

"Yes, don't you remember dad telling you about what happenedwith Trent? He was the evil White Ranger," Kimberly replied.

"Then you should've told me that something like this would've happened to me. I wouldn't have been this close to Brandon if I knew he would've been chosen."

Kimberly stroked her daughter's hair. "Ann, you can't prevent something like this. Things like this always happen. Look at me, Ann," Kimberly urged. She lifted her daughter's face and wiped her tears away. "Your father loves you more than his life and he would give it up in order to keep you alive. He feels awful that he had to tell you this, but it was the only way we were able to explain how to break the curse on Brandon," Kimberly explained.

"How did you stop dad?" She asked.

"By destroying the Sword of Darkness, your father was freed. Jason freed your father from Rita's spell."

Tommy stood in the doorway, waiting for his daughter to come to him. Ann stood up and walked over to her dad. She hugged him with a sigh. "I love you, daddy," she whispered. Tommy held her close with a smile.

"I love you too, Ann," he whispered back.