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Mel: Yay, you did two projects! I hate pop quizzes. They're stupid. Don't the teachers already know that no one listens:P

Juzblue: Yeah, they're from the future. If you think that was a surprise, just wait until you read this chapter. You might of gotten it from the last chapter, I couldn't tell from the review. :P

Mz. Daydream: I love Tempest, too. I'm being so evil, but not all the Andros and Ashley parts will be sad.

Jenny: Yay! I told you someday I'd write something that you didn't guess! And you didn't guess! I even told you everything in the last chapter. The last sentence! All right, I'm done gloating now. And you did guess all the little things. You just missed the really big obvious one. :P Don't worry, this chapter is to help out anyone who missed what I was saying in the last chapter.

C.C.C: Yup, it is.

the-power-of-love: You're probably right. Here's more, so you can find out.

DizneeDol: I'm glad you know what's going on. I thought I made it easy for you this time. :P

Chapter 16

"You think I did what?" Karone exclaimed, staring blankly at the child in front of her. "Tempest..."

"Just listen," Tempest pleaded. The yellow ranger was out of breath from her long rant, and stared at her with wild eyes.

"I did listen," Karone said dimly. "It's absolutely crazy... but stranger things have happened."

"So you believe me?" Tempest said hopefully.

Karone sighed. "There's only one way to find out... Deca, get all the rangers in here."

"Ryan's going to kill me," Tempest muttered. "I wasn't supposed to tell anyone."

"He wanted this kept a secret?" Karone asked increduously. "What's wrong with him?" She sighed. "Never mind. If you're telling the truth, he gets it from his father."

"I'm telling the truth," Tempest insisted.

Karone sighed. "Then he gets it from his father?"

"Who gets what from his father? Oh, hey, Karone."

"Hi, Ciaran," Karone said, shock still present in her voice.

"Um," Tempest said. "This is gonna sound funny, but..."

"Wait," Karone said wearily. "Please? I don't want to do this five times."

"I didn't think of that," Tempest said with a sheepish smile. "Sure, we can wait."

"Wait for what?" Ciaran asked curiously. "Tem, whatcha do?"

"Um," Tempest said again. "Ryan and I found out something, and then I um, I kinda told her everything."

"Everything?" Mira asked, breezing onto the bridge, her dirty blond hair flying behind her. "Like, everything, everything?"

"Yeah," Tempest said. At Mira's look, she added defensively, "I had to!"

"What did you have to do?"

Tempest groaned as Damien appeared. "I'll tell you when everyone shows up."

"I'm here!" Melanie cried, running in. "I'm not late, am I? What's going on?"

"Who's missing?" Karone asked. "Just Ryan and Matt?"

"I'm here," Matt said. "Just Ryan."

"He doesn't need to be here," Tempest said decisively. "He'll flip, and he already knows."

"All right, then," Karone said. She turned to the assembled rangers. "Tempest told me that you're from the future." She rushed on before they could comment, "And there's a lot that you need to know."

"Like what?" Matt asked, glancing at Tempest warily. "We weren't supposed to tell anyone-"

"I can keep a secret," Karone assured him. "No one would believe me if I told them, anyway. Listen to me now, all right?"

"Do we have a choice?"

Karone ignored him. "If you were sent from the future, then it's obvious to me that you were meant to stop the Overlords before they take over the known universe. Since you were children when it happened, you weren't given the Power, and the Overlords won."

"Yeah, we know," Melanie said. "That's what Auntie told us before she sent us back here."

Karone stared at the girl in front of her for a long time. Chandra, she thought dimly. "There were some things that she - that I - didn't tell you."

"You?" Melanie repeated blankly. "But-"

"How?" Ciaran cut in. "How's that possible?"

"I'm a sorceress," Karone said. "I was Astronema. I guess that saved me... and you guys."

"You do look kinda like her," Damien said thoughtfully. "Wow."

"Mira," Karone said quietly. "Are you a sorceress?"

Mira looked startled at the question. "I have magic, if that's what you mean. So does Matt... We were never really taught to use it, though."

Zora and Kaden.

Karone was starting to feel lightheaded. "There's really no easy way to tell you this," she said. "But you are all children of Power Rangers."

"Awesome," Ciaran said. He frowned. "Why's that a bad thing?"

"It's not," Karone said. "It's just... you're the children of the Astro Rangers."

"But the Astro Rangers are..." Damien started to protest. Then he realized what she was saying. "Oh."

"But that means that we're those kids..." Melanie said. "And there were more of them that us..."

"Skylar and Ximena," Tempest said. "And Spyridon too, I guess."

Karone cast a sharp look at Damien. Murchadh?she wondered. Or Diego?

"So we're fighting against our family?" Mira asked.

"Yeah," Tempest said, nodding. "We can't lose, you guys."

"Tempest," Karone said. "It's more complicated than that... the Overlords know now, what I did. If they manage to invade KO-35, your past selves are in danger, not only you."

"Can we get them to live on the Megaship?" Melanie wondered.

"Not without a convincing explanation," Karone said. "And this is just my opinion, but if you were to tell any of the former rangers, especially TJ and Andros, they'd not only lock up their children somewhere, they'd try to bring you along with them."

"So you think we shouldn't tell them?" Tempest asked.

"I don't know what to think," Karone admitted. "You guys decide for yourselves... but keep in mind that you're running out of time."