I'm so sorry that this took so long. I went on vacation, then got busy with work and other things. Anyway this story is long from over okay maybe it's almost half way through. Then comes the sequel which involves Dino Thunder. I was thinking well while I'm messing with everything in Dino Thunder that will affect SPD, why not screw with their story line too. So if a lot of people would like to see that there will be a third story involving SPD, with more of a story line than the show and it will have all the rangers from this story and Dino Thunder, with a lot of twists. Let me know if you would like to see that or not. You can also wait for the sequel but I'll need to know before the end of that one, so I can do the ending I have in mind. Thanks! Super Bowel Sunday is going to be great, which by the way my company saved! Yep, the idiots there put too much power in their multicoupler which is a part f a system that is used to send the radio and TV frequencies out, anyway the blew up their Power Supply and Amplifier and my company sent them out brand new ones today. Plus a little bonus for me is I'm the one that builds the power supplies! Okay enough of that except GO STEELERS! Now on with the story.
Tommy looked out the passenger side window at the building the old brown brick building. Someone had put up what appeared to be aluminum siding, and painted it bright neon green. Grand opening signs hung all over the place covering half of the sign. The only readable part was cybercafe.
"Kim, how are you going to be able to walk in there without causing a riot?" Tommy asked.
As he turned to look at her, he found her leaning into the back seat. He couldn't help but laugh. Half of her was still in the driver's seat while the other half was in the back.
"Kimberly... What on earth are you doing?" Tommy chuckled.
"Solving the riot problem." Came her muffled response.
When she finally got herself in back into the drivers seat Tommy could see she was holding a baseball cap and a pair of sun glasses.
"Oh yeah that's going to work. Like I have never seen a star on a tabloid cover with a baseball cap and sun glasses." Tommy rolled his eyes.
"Hey, need I remind you that you ran right into me without even recognizing me or my voice."
"You ran into me. Plus I had my mind on other things."
"Oh yeah? Like what?" Kimberly asked while putting on her hat.
"Like why I wanted you so badly. When we had only been in the same room for a few seconds."
"Liar. Now come on. Lee is probably worried out of her mind and really stressed out. This little stunt is the last thing she needed to happen to her today." Kimberly said as she got out of the car.
Tommy tried to wrap his mind around what she had just said. 'The last thing that she needed to happen to her. When will she start thinking and worrying about herself, instead of others?' Tommy thought to himself.
Tommy and Kimberly walked hand in hand into the completely packed cafe. Tommy went to tighten his grip on Kimberly's hand when he felt her hand slip from his. In that instant she was completely lost in the crowd. Tommy could just barely hear Kimberly's voice rise above the crowds chatter.
"Hey Lee." Tommy barely heard her call for her friend.
Tommy slowly made his way through the crowd and wonder how Kimberly was able to make it though it so fast. He saw her leaning on the counter waving her hand to get the woman behind it to notice her.
"Hey Lee!" Kimberly was starting to sound annoyed.
Well, Tommy guessed she sounded annoyed. As he got closer to Kimberly the music from the band was getting louder and so were the people's voices.
"Miss..." The red headed woman sighed. "I'm sorry but I don't have time to take your order. Could you please wait for one of my staff to take it. I need to leave."
"Why?" The question was simply enough but she didn't know if she would be able to answer it without crying.
She saw the news that morning as she turned on the TV's in the cafe. She wasn't able to leave because people had already started to line up. So she agreed to stay for a while. Although she hated to leave her staff there when they were as busy as the were she had to know if her friend was okay.
"A friend of mine was injured she's in the hospital and I must go see her. Now if you don't mind… I really need to leave."
"She wasn't hurt." Kimberly said in a low of a voice as she could get without gaining notice of the people around her.
"What? How do you... OH MY..."
"Hey, hey! What are you trying to do Lee? Blow my cover?" Kimberly placed her hand over the other woman's mouth cutting her off before she could say her name.
Kimberly pulled her ball cap further down, as to cover her eyes more. She looked around and no one seemed to have noticed the two or their odd conversation.
"Come to the back room then you owe me a huge explanation."
"I have to wait for my boyfriend." Kimberly said as the other woman lifted part of the counter to allow Kimberly behind and into the back room.
"You're dating Tom again?"
"Yes and no. Go ahead back he is right behind me we'll meet you back there."
"Kimberly there you are. Did you find your friend?" Tommy asked as he grabbed Kimberly's hand and held it tightly.
"Yeah I did she is waiting in the back room for us." Kimberly lead him behind the counter and into the back room.
Tommy could see the red head as he came through the door. She had her back turned to them and was watching a TV that was showing the local news. Any and all other thoughts and observations left Tommy's mind the instant she turned around.
"Tommy I would like you to meet..." Kimberly started as she pulled of her hat and sun glasses.
"Hayley!" Tommy nearly shouted but kept his voice in check as to not draw and undue attention to the back room.
Meanwhile
In a room on the other side of the galaxy on the planet Mirinoi, an envelope appeared in a white glow.
"Karone, I'm serious you should take some time off and see your brother." A young man said as he opened the door to his room.
As the man entered the room he noticed the envelope on his bed, he sat down and started to open it as he and his friend continued to talk.
"Leo I would love to, but come on. We are not on active duty. We can't just take the ship or use are powers to get to earth. Besides he's coming here in a few months."
"You want to re-think that part about us not being on active duty?" Leo asked as he handed her the letter he just finished reading.
Back on earth
"Hello, Tommy." Hayley said as she walked up to Tommy and gave him a quick hug.
"Why do I feel like I am stuck on that horrid ride at Disney?" Kimberly asked no one in particular.
The comment was lost as the two continued to talk.
"Your Lee?"
"Only Kimberly calls me that, and your back with Kimberly?"
"And Kimberly is lost…"
"I think that makes three of us." Tommy said as he started to come out of shock.
"Okay, how about we catch up on why you aren't in the hospital, and we'll work backwards from there." Hayley suggested
Mariner Bay
"Come on Dana it says he needs us."
"First Carter it doesn't even say it's from Tommy. It only shows the six spirit animals of the Ninja Rangers. Second don't you find it a little odd that a letter that you're guessing is from Tommy shows up in your room, and no one remembers delivering it?"
"This is Tommy we are talking about. Andros and him brought together all of the red rangers, for a mission on the moon. So no I don't find this odd."
"At least take another Ranger with you, like it says." Dana said as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Fine get packing we leave first thing in the morning." Carter said as he left the room, before Dana could argue with him anymore.
Haley's Cyber café
"So you two have known each other since the Pan Global's?"
"One of Haley's friends was on the men's team. When she heard I moved here, she made contact with me. She helped me find my house and has been a great friend."
"If it wasn't for Kim pay rolling this place I would still be begging banks for a small business loan." Haley added.
Meanwhile
"I can't believe Tommy is calling us back to action." Wes said as he turned into the park where they were meeting Alyssa and Cole.
"Wes the letter just said someone wanted to meet with us. Don't forget your powers were completely drained in the forever red mission. Plus we don't even know if the letter is from Tommy." Jen reminded him.
"I know but this is Tommy he's got to have something up his sleeve." Wes countered as the parked.
"Hey Cole, Alyssa!" Jen greeted.
"Hi, good seeing you guys again." Alyssa said.
"So what do you guys think is the reason Tommy is calling us back?"
"WES! We haven't even got them in the car yet!" Jen said in an exasperated tone.
She had been listening to this for the past 3 hours. She highly doubted they were being called back into duty, especially since the letter said to bring another ranger. If it was a mission she wasn't going to sit back and let the men have all the fun like last time. It seemed she wasn't alone in this opinion since all of the other rangers were bringing their pink counter parts. Although like the other girls she disagreed with the guys in thinking that this was going to be another mission and had some suspicion that the letter wasn't from Tommy.
"Come on it's got to be something big. I mean the mysterious letter that all the former rangers got, not to mention the fact no one knows how they got the letters."
"I don't think so." Cole said with an impish grin.
"So you have been thinking about this?" Alyssa grinned at his slight blush.
"Well yeah haven't you?"
"No, not really, I mean it won't do us any good to start coming up with all these reasons of why we're being called in. I mean yeah, it could be the end of the world or…" Alyssa faded off.
"Or?" Both Cole and Wes asked.
"He and Kat are finally getting married." Alyssa said thinking her and Jen were on the same page.
"NO!" Wes exclaimed as he helped Cole put his and Alyssa's luggage in the boot of his car.
"Why not? They have been dating a long time. I mean Jason did say they were almost inseparable since what's her name… Kayla broke his heart?" Cole said.
"Kimberly. If you are going to talk about her like she is bringing about the end of the world at least get her name right."
"Yeah at very least." Wes added.
"I just really hope they are finally going to do it. Kat has always seemed so nice." Alyssa said trying to change the subject back to a happier note.
"That's not how it's suppose to go." Jen mumbled under her breath.
"Okay, are we all ready?" Wes asked as he opened the driver's side door.
Kimberly's house
"What is taking them so long?" Andros asked as he and Zhane sat out on the back deck.
"I don't know."
"Maybe we should call them?" Andros wondered aloud.
As if answering his question they heard car doors close in front of the house.
Front of the house
"I can't believe you two know each other." Kimberly said as she got out of the car tossing her hat and sunglasses back into the back seat.
"Me what about you? I'm starting to buy into your whole it's to small of a world theory." Tommy said with a laugh as he took her hand into his.
"Told you so. I wonder where the others are?" Kimberly thought aloud.
"Maybe still at the hospital or getting some food."
"Yeah, which reminds me I'm going to have to triple my next food order, just for Rocky alone." Kimberly said as she and Tommy entered the house.
"I left my cell phone up in our bedroom I'm going to check to see if Jason or TJ called."
"Okay, you want some coffee?" Kimberly asked as she headed to the kitchen.
"That would be great, beautiful. If I haven't gotten any calls from the guys I'll call them. I'll be right down, stay in the house." With that Tommy was climbing the stairs to their bedroom.
"Our bedroom." Kimberly said with a giggle.
How she loved the sound of that. If she could just repeat those words over and over again in her head, then she knew she could get through anything. Kimberly started making the coffee. Once it started to brew she started to grab the milk, sugar and finally the cups.
Andros and Zhane walked into the kitchen to find Kimberly pulling the milk out of the refrigerator. They proceed to walk up to her, by the time they had reached her she was in the cupboard.
"We have a message for you." Andros whispered in her ear and grabbed her arm to pull her into him, so only she could hear him.
Kimberly instantly dropped the cup as she was startled out of her thoughts. She spun to come face to face with Andros. Zhane was slightly to her right. He placed his hand on her should, as she took a moment to realize what Andros had said and what that meant. She started to get a sick feeling in her stomach. She knew this day would come she just didn't know how he was going to react to it, when he found out they were back and Kimberly knew and hid them.
"Sorry I scared you. We talked to him, he wants you to do something."
"What?" Kimberly asked her voice still slightly shaking.
"He wants Tommy." Zhane whispered into her ear
At the same time Tommy could be heard running down the steps.
"Kimberly!" He yelled right before he appeared in the doorway.
"What happened?"
"I scared her, I thought she sensed me coming up behind her." Andros said.
Tommy came up to Kimberly and pulled her into him, he looked her over to make sure she was okay. That's when he noticed the shattered coffee cup and blood on the counter. He looked down to see her left hand was bleeding.
"What do you mean sensed you?" Tommy asked as he started to inspect Kim's hand.
"You cut yourself. Where is your first aid kit?" Tommy asked
"Under the sink. I can't sense anyone Andros why?" Kimberly said softly.
"Probably drained yourself. Remember you didn't want to use your powers. Now you're using them on instinct you probably drained them. They should come back after you've had some rest."
"Will she keep draining them as she uses them?" Tommy asked as he opened the first aid kit.
He grabbed Kimberly's waist and set her on the counter next to the sink. He grabbed the tweezers to pull a piece of the shatter cup out of her hand. Tommy guessed when she dropped the cup she tried to catch it and it shattered in her hand.
"No, as she uses them more and more she will build them up. Kinda of like working out at first your muscles aren't use to it and then as time goes on with steady work you get stronger and stronger. It's basically the same concept for her and her powers, but she will need to take up her training again."
"Hello! She is right here, stop talking about me like I'm a little kid that you have to spell around them so they don't find out Momma is playing with the milkman! OW" Kimberly said as Tommy removed the piece of the cup and pressed the alcohol soaked gauze a little harder than necessary against the cut.
"Sorry." He apologized instantly regretful.
Kimberly started to try to get off the counter when Tommy stopped her.
"That was deep in there Kim, you at very least need a bandage."
Kimberly just laughed. She held her hand up so Tommy could see the cut, which was still bleeding. Tommy went to reach for a bandage when Andros stopped him and motioned with his head to watch Kimberly's hand. Kimberly closed her eyes and leaned her head against the cupboard door. Her hand started to glow pink and the cut started to heal. It was like watching one of those nature shows when they speed the film up so you could see the flower bloom. Within a few seconds the deep cut that wouldn't stop bleeding looked like nothing more than a minor paper cut.
Kimberly slumped forward if it wasn't for Tommy and Andros she would have fallen off the counter completely.
"Whoa easy, didn't I just say that you have drained your powers."
"Tommy needed to see that."
"Granted but you need a break. Tommy why don't you walk Kim upstairs and make sure she at least lays down for a little bit. Andros and I will clean up down here." Zhane said while Andros was whispering in Kimberly's ear.
"Kim?" Tommy asked softly.
She and Andros continued their conversation. Tommy tried to hear what they were saying but it was all in Altarian.
"Kim?" Tommy asked again this time putting his hand on her shoulder.
"Hmm? Oh yeah… I'll see you guys later." Kimberly said distantly.
When they finally got up to their room Kimberly was feeling worse by the second and she knew Tommy could see something was wrong with her.
"Kimberly what's wrong?" Tommy asked as he stepped in front of her.
"I love you and trust you with my life Tommy."
"I feel the same way, beautiful." Tommy said as Kimberly buried her head in his chest.
As a tear fell from her eye, she pressed the button on her communicator and in a mix of pink and white light they disappeared.
"Good luck Kimberly." Andros said as he stood in the door way.
When the light finally died down they were in a cold empty metal room. Kimberly instantly fell to her knees bowing in front of two figures that were completely covered in the shadows. As suddenly as they got there lightning started to flash and two more figures join them.
Tommy was standing there as his jaw practically hit the floor.
"No, it can't be. You were destroyed."