Chapter Two
With a heavy sigh, Kimberly got out of the cab that had driven her just out of the limits of Angel Grove. The driver stepping out to help her with her bags.
"Man, are you moving her?" The driver grumbled as he lifted a particular heavy one.
Kim laughed.
"No, just visiting for a couple of weeks."
Kim grabbed a bag and headed for the front door of the small mansion. That was Billy, not too flashy. His blue painted house was big but small enough to show that he was modest.
Knocking on the door, Kimberly adjusted her pale pink skirt. The whole group was supposed to wear their color or for most of the guys colors. She had to laugh at that.
Jason would be wearing red, his original color, and gold. Adam, had to wear black and green. Rocky was red and blue. Billy only had blue. Tommy had a whopper of four, she believes now; first green, next was white, then red, and his last color black. Zack was just black. The yellow rangers were Trini, first, Aisha, second, and Tanya, third. Pink, were only herself and Kat.
When the door opened , Kimberly was bombarded by three of her friends, the forth just couldn't get to her. Jason lee Scott, Zachary Taylor and William Cranston, were holding onto the small woman like their lives depended on it.
"It's good to see you too." Kim managed to say. "But you're crushing me."
They released her and smiled down at her. Kim so her life long best friend in the background.
"Trini!" She squealed as she embraced the long haired Vietnamese woman.
"Kim!" Trini returned and quickly returned the hug.
"Is it just us?" Kim asked.
"Kat's here." Jason said. "She's with me."
"When?"
"Yes first leader in red." Zack said as he and Billy had went for Kim's bags and were just entering the house with the last of them.
Kimberly paid to taxi driver and waited for an answer.
"Well," Jason began. "On and off since college. Long distance thing, for most of relationship."
The others just stood there in shock at the length of their relationship. It was obvious no one knew about this ranger couple.
"Where is Kat?"
"She's sleeping. Jet lag."
They all nodded.
"So when the others coming?" Kim asked as they moved her things to the room she was staying in.
The room was mostly pink, a darker pink than what Kat normally wore. The comforter was pink and so were the curtains. Needless to say Kim was shocked and looked over to her blond companion. Billy smiled weakly and shrugged.
"I thought it suited you." He said. "Anyway, Tommy and his new team will be arriving sometime within the hour. He's bringing their technical advisor."
"Yea, trying to hook Mr. Blue here up." Zack laughed wrapping one arm around Billy's shoulders and patting his buddy on the chest.
"Um… well." Billy blushed and continued. "Tanya and Adam will be arriving with Rocky and Aisha sometime today. They didn't really give me a time."
Just as Billy had said, Tommy and his team arrived within the hour. Kim was surprised to see that he had cut his hair fairly short and that he had spiked it.
By this time Kat had joined them and was standing close to Jason.
Tommy and their technical adviser looked as though they were about to kill the students.
The teens were very talkative until they say the former rangers. All four of them looked at one another, trying to decide who should introduced themselves first. Luckily Tommy took the initiative.
"Guys, this is Ethan James, blue." Tommy said pointing to a round cheeked African American boy clad in blue.
Ethan raised his hand and mumbled hi.
Billy smiled and approached the teen.
"It is a pleasure to meet you , Ethan." The original blue ranger said. "I am William Cranston, first blue and first triceratops and I also commanded the triceratops unicorn thunderzord."
Ethan smiled and made a mental note to a discussion with the elder ranger about computers.
"This is Trent Fernandez." Tommy pointed to the shy boy who was holding a drawing pad. "He is our white."
Trent smiled and nodded. He shook the former rangers' hands.
"This is Kira Ford, the yellow."
Kira nodded and smiled at Trini.
"Hi." She said meekly.
"Hi Kira." Trini and shook the young girl's hand.
"This is Conner McKnight, our red and leader." Tommy said not hiding the strain in his voice when he said Conner was the leader.
The original rangers laughed and hid there comments about the awkward situation.
"Hi." Conner said in a small voice that was so not like him.
"And this is Hayley, our technical adviser."
Hayley stepped forward and extended her hand to the group.
"Hello."
The former six rangers took her hand in turn. When she reached Billy, they both felt a spark that their logical minds could not comprehend.
"As I previously said, I am William Cranston." Billy said letting go of Hayley's hand. He cleared his throat and continued. "You may refer to me as Billy."
"Previously? May? Refer?" Zack laughed noticing Billy's natural way of speaking. "Man, you're hopeless. Anyways, I'm Zachary Taylor. You guys can 'call' me Zack. I'm the first black and my dino was the mastodon and I had the mastodon lion thunder zord."
Zack shook their hands and glanced over to Tommy, who obviously had something to say but did not on the fear being compared to Billy.
"Hi, I'm Jason Scott. I was the first red, first leader, and the first tyrannosaurus and red dragon. I was also gold for a short time."
Jason shook their hands. Noticing Rocky, Adam, Aisha, and Tanya letting themselves in and locking the door behind them.
"I'm Dr. Trini Kwan Taylor." The Original yellow smiled at the teens before turning to her husband and smirking at him. Zack hated it when she added the Kwan.
"I was yellow and my zord was the saber tooth tiger and the saber tooth tiger griffin thunderzord."
"And I'm Kimberly Hart." Kim said reaching out to take a hand as Trini let it fall. "I was original pink and I had the Pterodactyl, the pterodactyl firebird thunder zord and the crane."
"That's cool." Kira said. "My zord's the Pterozord."
Kim smiled at her and motioned for the teens to turn to meet the rest of the group. Kat had moved as soon as she saw Tanya and went to embrace her best friend.
"Hey, I'm Rocky DeSantos." Rocky said and offered his hand. "Second red and blue. Red dragon and ape"
"I'm Conner McKnight, red." Conner said taking the offered hand. "and this is Ethan James, blue, Kira Ford, yellow, and Trent Fernandez, white. Oh and that's Hayley."
Rocky nodded to the red haired woman.
"Hi I'm Aisha DeSantos. The second yellow. I was saber tooth, griffin, and bear."
"That's my woman fierce." Rocky said and was hit for it.
"I'm Adam Park," The guy in black and green said. "I was the second black ranger and my zord at that time was the mastodon lion. I was green too."
"I'm Tanya Park." Tanya said happily. "I was yellow ranger number three."
"And I'm Katherine Hillard." Kat said to the teens. "I was pink. I was Kim's replacement."
"Well, that was a long introduction." Jason said clapping his hands.
"Yea, let's eat." Rocky said and everyone laughed.