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An Accident at the Dojo
Tommy's POV
I have to teach my advanced class this afternoon and some of them have become good enough that Rocky and I are allowing them to teach the beginner classes, with a little bit of help from one of us, if they need it. Most of them don't need any help, though. They've gotten enough experience under their belt to be able to do this accurately.
There are even a few of them that have asked to teach full time after they graduate from high school in May and they will be looking for a job to help with college. I wouldn't mind Ashley and Charlie coming back and teaching, some times, but some of the other kids would not be as appreciated. The little kids love to see Charlie come over there and if he'd teach those classes, full time, it would sure help Rocky and me, once we know that we will be fighting the final battle with Mesogogg within a few days. That battle is going to change so much in our lives and I'm not even sure if we know the full extent of it yet. We have been rangers for so long, that we don't even know how to act when we are not held under ranger duties and I don't know if I ever want to know what it is like, although it has to happen. I have to be able to have a life that is seperate from my ranger life.
"Good afternoon, Dr. O," Ashley said as he entered the dojo from his office and he was surprised that she was standing right there. She usually was with Charlie when she came in.
Come to think of it, he hadn't seen them walking together at school today, but maybe it had just been a bad day for both of them or a busy day, as he had seen it happen a few times before. It was just odd to him that they weren't talking to each other while they were at the dojo. They always had something that they needed to say to each other and it struck him as odd that they were not speaking.
"Good to see you, Ashley. Where's your better half?" Tommy asked with a smile, as Ashley turned and pointed towards the rest of his students, who were standing around, waiting for him to start their class. He was surprised that the two of them were still apart, but maybe it was worse than he thought it was. He had just thought that they had decided to take a little space from each other, as they some times did, but that didn't seem to be the case today. They never took space from each other during lessons and it seemed like that was what they wanted to happen this time. "Did the two of you have a fight?"
"It wasn't really a fight, we were just talking about college and it got a little bit heated. We both need some time to cool off," Ashley said, as Tommy walked her over to the group of boys.
She had always been accepted by the boys because of her and Charlie's friendship and to see them on the outs did not help his mood any after his day at school. He knew that the two of them had a chemistry that probably would not be broken by time or distance apart, but it was hard to explain that to an eighteen-year-old whose girlfriend might be heading to an out of state college in a couple of months. All of the thoughts that were running through his head had her breaking his heart, although Tommy doubted that would happen, unless someone truly came in and swept Ashley off her feet.
"He doesn't want you to go very far away, does he?" Tommy asked, as he imagined Kim would have been the same way if they had still been together when the two of them went off to college.
They hadn't been together, so he had never had to deal with her talking about how horrible it was going to be with them being apart. They had already had that talk when she moved to Florida and it had not been pleasant either. That was one of the few fights that they had had before she left, but they had promised that they would make it work. Well, everyone knew where that got them. He could only imagine how Charlie was feeling about them being apart or just thinking about that happening, especially if his friends were feeding him horror stories and he would have done that years ago, but he didn't anymore. Things could always get better when you least expected it.
"How'd you know?" Ashley asked as Charlie looked over at her and then looked away before she noticed, although he had not looked away quick enough for Tommy to not notice it.
Charlie wanted to talk to her, but he wasn't sure how to say what he needed to say. He was sorry that he had upset her, but he had no clue how to say that when she was still so angry with him. They had always been able to get over being angry before, but it seemed to be much harder this time. Of course, what he said had been worse than most of the other fights that they had had in the past.
"Just blame it on experience in this area. I kinda know what it looks like. I've actually been there; Kim moved across the country at the end of our junior year," Tommy said, as he stood in front of the boys and they couldn't help but guiltily look at him. They knew that they had left Ashley out, but they were not sure how to include her with Charlie being so aggravated right now. They didn't want him to be mad at them, so they choose to do whatever he seemed to want them to do and ignoring her seemed to fit the bill. Dr. O, however, did not seem to like the way they were acting at all. "Okay, we're going to go through some new maneuvers and then I'll let you test them on me and Rocky, then yourselves after you've gotten the hang of it."
"Rocky's helping you out today?" Jackson asked in shock, as they rarely went up against Rocky anymore. He, actually, couldn't remember doing that since the tournament last year.
Rocky and Tommy, generally, stuck to working with their own classes and did not try to mix their teaching styles. They both were good teachers, but once you got used to one of them, you were rarely able to deal with the other as easily as it was when they switched out classes.
"Yes," Tommy sad matter-of-factly, as he did not want them to ask anymore questions.
It was going to be bad enough when he started calling off their classes, on a regular basis, but it was going to get even worse when both of them had to start doing that to all of their classes. They had always been able to keep some classes up and running, but when they had to fight the final battle, the dojo would be shut down until it was over. They just hoped that the students would understand it and not try to find another dojo.
"What's gotten into you?" Jackson asked, as Charlie nailed him one good time and then he looked over his shoulder to see Ashley had been thrown to the ground by Rocky and was struggling to stand up. He wanted to go and let loose on Rocky for doing that to her, but he doubted that she was even able to concentrate on what had happened because of the way that he had treated her earlier today. He had just lost all of the patience that he usually had at once and this was not a good thing. He didn't know what he could say to get her to listen to him now or if she was even willing to listen to him anymore. "Not her. She's just a girl, Charlie."
"We had a fight and she's more than just a girl," Charlie said, simply, as Jackson could only shake his head. When he fought with his girlfriend, he didn't have the problem of feeling very guilty about it, because she usually started and ended it with him. To be honest, he and his girlfriend were a lot more like brother and sister with their fighting, but they usually got over it fast enough to be able to do things that they wanted to do and it didn't affect their relationship. Charlie and Ashley's fights made their whole relationship rock and there was nothing that anyone could do to change that.
"Come on, Charlie. That's normal for people to fight every once in awhile. I mean, we've seen Dr. O and his wife go at it, but they always get over it," Jackson said, as he saw Dr. O looking between the two of them and shaking his own head.
They had all imagined that it would be bad when Charlie and Ashley fought, but this was worse than they ever thought it would be. Most of them had thought that they would be able to talk it out, like they did everything else that happened to them. Now, they were all getting the feeling that Charlie had just stepped too far over the line. None of them had seen them fight, but they all were wishing that they had been a fly on the wall to see whatever had taken place, so they would be able to help them out of this problem.
"Not for us, Jackson. This is the first time that she has honestly been this mad at me since we started dating last year and I don't like it. I've never liked it when she's mad at me and don't go comparing us to Dr. O. He'll tell you the hell he's been through and I don't want to have that happen to myself," Charlie said with a sigh of frustration as Tommy walked over and tapped him on the shoulder, which made him jump about a mile. He was always on edge when he was in the dojo and he had learned to be that way, from seeing how Tommy acted here. He seemed to always be prepared for anything to happen and although the dojo was safe, it seemed that karate just made Tommy jumpy.
"It's just me, Charlie. Come on, let's talk," Tommy said, as he was not planning on letting this sit for too long. He knew that Charlie would not be able to do anything until they resolved this, so he was going to make them talk about it. Whether that was a good idea or not was up in the air, but at least they would have to say what was on their mind or they could just ignore each other forever, it was their pick. But no one could say that he didn't try to make them talk it out. "Do you want to talk to her now?"
"How did you know?" Charlie asked, as Tommy motioned for Ashley to follow him as soon as she could, which would really be up to Rocky.
Rocky had gotten the feeling that it was something like this when Ashley came to work with him instead of Charlie, as that was never a good sign with the two of them. They always worked out with each other, no matter what was going on and he had only seen them like this when they were trying not to say that they liked each other. He just hoped that Tommy knew what he was doing or this situation could become much worse over the next few days.
"I have my sources and I do have eyes too," Tommy said as Ashley came jogging up behind him and settled on the other side of Tommy, which made Charlie cringe. He had hoped that she would have walked up beside him, but she still was trying to get her brain together and understand everything that she might have to deal with. Dr. O did not seem to want to let this go on, but she was not ready for this to happen.
"Yes, Dr. O?" Ashley asked cautiously as Tommy looked from Charlie to her. He knew that she had done that on purpose, but Charlie was giving him a look that begged him to move out of the way and he was tempted to do that, just so she would see what he was seeing.
"The two of you need to talk," Tommy said, as he opened the door to Rocky's office and pushed them inside, with very little effort. He knew that this had worked with him and Kim and it was a surefire way to get them to talk, even if it did not work out well. They would at least be able to get everything off their minds and let the other know how they felt, hopefully, without any consequences. If they loved each other, they were going to find a way to work through this problem. "And don't come out until you have solved this. I mean it."
"Dr. Oliver, please," Ashley said as the door was, softly, closed in her face.
She then turned around and sank to the floor with her back against the door. She hated fighting with Charlie, but she had no clue where to start with him this time. They didn't fight often and when they did, it took them a long time to come around to each other and she was afraid that this was too soon to talk about it, but she was going to have to try.
"Ash," Charlie whispered as she whimpered quietly, but would still not look at him. He hung his head knowing what he had caused, but there was nothing more that he could think to say right now. Nothing more that would get her attention as well as that nickname. "Ash, I don't know where to start."
"You think that I do?" Ashley asked as he looked over at her and felt his heart sink as he walked over and sat down next to her. He couldn't stand it anymore, being away from her, but he only hoped that she would be willing to let him sit next to her.
"I didn't mean to get so angry with you. I just want you to stay here with me," Charlie said as she nodded her head and then looked away for a few seconds.
"Then why did you start it? You knew that you would get angry about it," Ashley said, as he reached for her hand and played with each one of her fingers, trying to think of what he needed to say to her. He didn't want to say the wrong thing or he might very well be smacked by Ashley, which was painful to experience that he never wanted to deal with again. That had happened to him when they had had a fight a few years ago and he still remembered it very well.
"Because I didn't know how else to act. You've been talking about going out of state and it hurts. I want you to stay here with me," Charlie whispered as he felt Ashley placed her head on his shoulder. It was hard to really explain all of it without him having to tell her things that he had been planning to wait for. There were so many things he was going to tell her over the next few weeks, but it seemed that he needed to do that much sooner than he wished.
"Charlie, you're a smart boy and if you want to come out with me, you can. And I'm just talking about it; I haven't decided on anything yet. My parents are pushing for it, but I think I might stay here. I just wanted you to know all of the possibilities," Ashley said.
Her parents liked Charlie but they didn't see why she wanted to stay with him so badly, there were other boys out there, although he treated her better than anyone else they knew. They had been friends for years before they dated and it seemed like they could go back to that anytime that they choose to do so. Her parents just wanted her to be able to have friends and not worry about Charlie, but Charlie was all that she wanted and no one else would do for her. She just hoped that she would be able to get her parents to understand that before she went off to college, because she honestly didn't see herself meeting anyone that was better than him.
"Why have they changed the way that they think about me?" Charlie asked, as he had practically grown up in front of them.
They knew everything about him and it seemed to him that they would be more comfortable with him than anyone else that Ashley might have wanted to date. She had dated a few guys before she settled down on him and all he could remember hearing was that they didn't want her to date any of those guys, that they just weren't meant to be with her. The two of them had both thought that her parents would have been happy to see that Charlie was who she was dating now, but it seemed that her parents were not going to like anyone that she dated. They wanted her to stay single forever and that did not seem to agree with Ashley in the least bit.
"I don't know, but they just don't want me to regret anything, although I'm happy right now. I guess they just want me to see if I can be happier with anyone else, but that would mean that I wouldn't want to date you anymore and that couldn't be further from the truth," Ashley said as they heard the door to Dr. O's office open and close.
They then saw Tommy and Kim walk to the back of his office, for some reason. They were well out of sight, but they still felt as if they were seeing something that they shouldn't ever see. It was not that Kim or Tommy was doing anything embarrassing, but this was private and it was obvious that he had forgotten about shutting them in Rocky's office, which was normal for Dr. O to do. He was not exactly known for his skills at remembering things.
"Why'd you come by?" Tommy asked, as he undid the belt that held his top closed and sat down in the chair behind his desk, casually propping his feet on top of his desk. "I thought you were going to stay at the house this afternoon."
Ashley and Charlie did not see the car seat anywhere, so the only thing they could think of was that Rocky or Ally was watching Angie in the dojo. They had seen her a few days after she was born and they had to admit that she looked a lot like Kim, but she seemed to have a mixture of their personalities, at least from the little while that she was awake. She, however, was a peaceful baby when she started becoming sleepy and they could tell Tommy and Kim where grateful for that.
"Hayley and Billy came to the house and they offered to give me a break for a little while to go get groceries and they'd watch Angie. So, I took them up on their offer. I haven't had anytime with just you lately and it's starting to get on my nerves," Kim said as Tommy gave her smile.
He knew exactly how true that statement was most evenings they were seeing at least one of the other rangers, if not more at their house, working on something that they needed to have done before they had to leave the Earth. It had become something that they expected to happen as the battles picked back up, although it made their alone time more precious to them.
They just wanted some time to be alone with each other and this was one way that they could get that time, although Tommy could almost bet that Billy had, had the full intentions of this happening. Billy knew how it made both of them calm down to be around each other and Billy wanted to keep the two of them calm as long as he could, just because of everything else that could have happened to them. Kim needed her time with Tommy and if that meant that Billy had to offer his babysitting services, then he was more than willing to do so, plus he got some more time with Hayley.
"I know, what are you hoping that we'll be able to do?" Tommy asked, as Kim walked over and sat down in his lap.
Now Ashley and Charlie definitely felt as if they shouldn't be there, but they couldn't move without being found. Dr. O would surely notice the door opening and closing and then he would kill them for listening in on their conversation, although they had not meant to do that. It was more like they were scared to death to move now and as long as this did not get any more uncomfortable then they would stay quiet and seated.
"Not what you are thinking about. I still have to wait, remember," Kim said bluntly as Tommy gave her a firm hug while Ashley covered Charlie's ears for a few seconds. She did not want him to hear anything that Kim might say that was provocative, but it was already a little bit too late for that, as he was sitting there with wide eyes. He knew that his teacher had to have had sex with his wife, but he had never imagined hearing either of them talk openly about it. They did, however, think that they were completely alone in there though.
"No fun," Tommy whispered as Kim gave him a kiss and then sat back against him, while playing with his short hair. She still wished that he would have kept it long, but she understood why he had to cut it, even if she did think that his students would respect him no matter what he looked like. He always had had this way of getting people to listen to him, even when he did have his long hair.
"Well, this isn't like my changing powers. I have no choice but to wait. No, let me rephrase that, you have no choice but to wait on this one. Tanya would kill us if we did something else against her. She about killed us when she found out that I had switched powers only a couple of days after having Angie," Kim said, as Charlie and Ashley exchanged a confused glance.
What type of powers were they talking about here? There was something going on that they did not want to have to deal with knowing about, but it seemed they were about to find out about it. They only hoped that it was not something that would get them hurt for finding it out.
"Yeah, Tanya would kill me if I did anything else that she had ordered me not to and I really don't want to hurt you," Tommy said as Kim laughed at him before playfully pushing his face away from hers. He was trying to kiss her again, but she could tell that he might get a little bit carried away.
"Well then, Mr. Leader is finally listening to some one? I should mark this day down in history," Kim said, as she heard her communicator go off and answered it, knowing there was no one that could be listening to her. All of his students had gone home for the night and Rocky already knew about everything, so there was no need to worry about anyone hearing what was said over the communicator or so she thought. "Yes, Alpha."
"Kim, there is an attack occurring at the park. You and Tommy need to meet the other rangers there. They are already there and they are being whooped," they heard a voice say and Kim and Tommy looked at each other and then agreed. They did not want to have to go out there and fight, not right now, but what choice did they really have? If they didn't do it, then no one else would and they needed to buy all of the extra time that they could.
"Don't try to protect me," Tommy muttered to Kim as they both stood up and they teleported out in rays of pink and white light.
Charlie and Ashley sat there, amazed, knowing, deep down, what they had just seen happen, although they didn't want to admit it. There was no way that they were going to be able to just sit back now that they knew who some of the rangers were, but this was just ridiculous for it to be two adults with a child that were out there risking their lives. They had thought that it was some teenagers, as it had always been, but this led to the bigger question of if they had been rangers more than once? It didn't seem like that could be possible, but now that they were thinking about it, it made more than enough sense that it would happen, especially for Kim and Tommy.
"What the hell was that?" Ashley asked as she stood up and went to look and see if she had really seen that happen. Just like she expected, there was no one in the office and no signs that they had even been in there this afternoon, except for the fact that Tommy's bag was open and contained his school clothes.
"Ashley, I know this is going to sound odd, but I think we just found out who two of the power rangers are," Charlie said, as this was probably the biggest understatement that he had ever made in his life.
They knew that they couldn't go tell anyone what they had seen, it might make Kim or Tommy be killed by someone who despised the rangers. They were also wondering how many other people that they knew that were rangers, but they wondered who else was a ranger that would have never came to mind. They hadn't expected a couple of twenty something year olds to be rangers, but they were and by the looks of it, they were the two that they always saw working together in battle, not that it was a big surprise with knowing who they were. The problem was, what could they do with the information that they now knew?
"What are you doing here?" Rocky asked, as he had seen the signature flashes out of the corner of his eyes and had gone to see if Kim and Tommy had left. He knew that Kim and Tommy had, had to leave, he could only hope that Charlie and Ashley had not seen them leave, although he was sure that they had. Tommy was not going to like when he heard this one, but he trusted that Ashley and Charlie would stay quiet about the situation.
"Dr. O told us that we had to talk to each other and we did," Ashley said, as she stepped around Rocky and pulled Charlie out of Rocky's office as quickly as she could, scared that he would be mad at her.
They had to think about what they had seen and what they should do about it or should they even do anything. The rangers had been doing fine without any more help, but they had seen some new faces on the news and they were sure that it was not good for the rangers for more people to be going against them. They needed more people to help them as well, but they didn't know if offering their help would be stepping over the invisible line that had been drawn around the rangers.
"Alright," Rocky said rather skeptically as the two of them hurried out of the dojo and to Charlie's truck.
He had the feeling that they had actually seen Tommy and Kim teleport out of the dojo and they were trying to figure all of this out. He didn't blame them for that, but he also knew that it was going to be a shock if they ever told Tommy what had happened and the way that they had seen it. He had almost killed Jason for spilling their secret to Ally and Hayley, when they were going back into retirement, now he was going to have to deal with spilling it to two teenagers, although he had probably forgotten they were in there. Kim, generally, erased all of his memory about things other than her when she was there.
At the Battle
"Took you long enough," Conner said as Tommy and Kim landed on each side of him with their rays of pink and white light fading away.
They were getting their butts beaten by these warriors and they all knew that Kim and Tommy were their last steps to having any sort of help right now. It had been rough since Rita and Lord Zedd had decided to team up with Mesogogg against them and they were now getting a good idea of what the rangers had been up against when they were younger. Kim and Tommy were just glad that they had not brought puddies back in, although they had the feeling that that was not very far down the road. When the puddies came back in, they were going to have to teach them everything that they knew about the creatures and they could only hope that the rangers would be fast learners, as they had been when they first started this program.
"Alpha just contacted us, Conner. Just be glad that we're here," Kim said as Tommy morphed and then she followed suit, knowing that he was suggesting that she do so when he morphed.
The two of them were already fighting but it only took so long for the tryadrones to understand who had come into this battle and they were starting to avoid them as much as they could. That always seemed to happen, although that made their job of keeping the big-wigs busy, a little bit easier. Once they discovered that the tryadrones were afraid of them, they had told the other rangers that they could take care of them and they would go after the monsters that threatened them so often and it worked, as long as there were less than two monsters.
"Screw this," Tommy said, as the younger rangers were being thrown in every direction by the much stronger tryadrones. He knew that they were using their power boosters, but they had just waited too long to call them out to help them this time. It seemed that they were never going to get the hang of how to use the power boosters, although Kim and he had tried to explain it to them. It was just going to take them working with the booster, until it finally felt right to them and that might be a very long time from now. "Kim, use all you can. They can't hold up under this much longer."
"Trying to, but it's kinda hard to get to anything when you're being triple-teamed!" Kim yelled as she threw a few tryadrones out of the way and then called the first weapon that came to her mind. It had been her most trusted weapon and there was nothing that anyone could do against them while she had that weapon, at least not in her mind and she needed the added confidence. "Power bow!"
"Saba! I could use some help here!" Tommy yelled, as the weapon appeared in his hand as he tossed it towards Zeltrax, knowing that the weapon would keep him busy and away from Kim and his other rangers. He trusted Saba to protect them for all of the things that he could not get to and he only hoped that the weapon still remembered that or they were going to have to have a talk after this battle.
"Tommy, there certainly is a lot of action here today," Saba remarked, as he combated Zeltrax and found that Tommy was working as quickly as he could against the tryadrones, trying to destroy them and then go and take care of Zeltrax.
"Shove it, Saba," Kim muttered, as the sword and its owner exchanged a glance before looking at her. Kim was becoming ill with all of this, but Tommy had not expected it to be this bad.
She felt as if these monsters were pulling her away from Tommy and she hated when that happened. The both of them were working so hard to get rid of Mesogogg that there was hardly any time for them anymore. They hated knowing that they were becoming strangers again, but they would be able to deal with it all, they had done it before. If they could just manage to get rid of Mesogogg, then they would be able to go back to whatever type of life was left for them.
"Brutal now are you or did that just come out since you had his baby?" Goldar asked, as he pinned her arms behind her. None of her skills could get her out of this type of hold, except Tommy and even he was not going to be able to help too much with this situation as Zeltrax had managed to get away from Saba and was occupying his battle range. He didn't want Goldar to leave with her and she knew that he would get her out of there, somehow.
"Leave her out of this, Goldar. She has nothing to do with any of you," Kim said, warningly, as she heard Tommy yell out to the other rangers to try to get to her. He was having no such luck and as much as he hated to admit it, he knew that if they did not do something quickly, then she would be gone. He did not want to go through the emotional hell of having her taken away again and he knew that the other rangers would rather not deal with that as well. "Leave all of them out of this!"
"Teleport her, Alpha," Tommy barked into his communicator as he watched her disappear from Goldar's grasps and reappear next to him within a few seconds, shaking from the shock that Goldar had almost done what he had wanted to.
"This isn't good, Tommy," Kim said, as he placed her behind him and then made a charge towards Goldar, but as soon as he was about to strike, Goldar and the tryadrones disappeared, which left this horrible feeling in the pit of his stomach. They only did that when they were preparing themselves for something more and it seemed that was what they were doing now. What else could Mesogogg possibly have waiting to attack them?
"What was that about?" Conner asked, as Tommy ordered them to teleport to the command center right away. He did not want to risk them coming back, because if they did there was no way for them to be able to regroup and talk about what had gone wrong out here, they had no protection. "Dr. O, are you going to answer us?"
"Yes, but you're not going to like the answer," Tommy said, as Kim, he, and the other rangers had discussed just how much they were going to take before they went to battle against Mesogogg on his own planet. They could not let Earth continue to suffer, even if it did put them at a greater risk to leave this planet and go fight. "We've reached the end of our rope right now. Mesogogg is looking to capture either Kim or Angie and I can't let that happen, no matter what it might cost us, I can't go through that type of torture. There are only a few things that will get us out of this alive and that is battling them as soon as we can. It is going to take a few weeks, but the other rangers are going on full alert tomorrow, we have a lot to do here tonight. I hope that all of you would go home and get some rest, you're not going to have many more nights where you can do that peacefully."
"But, Dr. O…" Kira said, as Kim turned to her and sternly shook her head no. There were to be no buts or questions right now. They had a lot of work to do, in a very short period of time and if anyone got in their way, the wrath would not be pretty to deal with, as she was sure they had figured out by seeing them mad before.
At the Park
"What are we supposed to do now?" Ashley asked, as she and Charlie sat down on their favorite swings at the park.
They did the only thing that they knew to do when they had a problem: go get an ice cream cone and sit in the park and talk about the options that they have left to deal with. Right now, it did not seem that they had many options left to discuss, except whether or not they were going to tell Dr. O. That decision, however, was scary to deal with as they were teenagers and they had no clue what Dr. O might do to them when this happened.
"I don't know. They want everyone to keep it a secret and they've done a good job with that for all of the years that they have been rangers. We might be better off just to not say anything and act as if we know nothing. They don't need any more worries than what they already have," Charlie said, as he looked across the lake and then sighed.
There were signs that they had fought here earlier this afternoon, but he could not believe that he knew some of the rangers, it didn't seem like it could be real. It just did not seem like he was not supposed to know this, like the conversation this afternoon was supposed to be a dream and he would wake up tomorrow and it had never happened. He wanted that to happen, but he knew that the reality was that he now knew who the ranger were and he felt that they needed to help them. The two of them had things that were going on in their life that was more important than being a ranger and Charlie didn't think that they would like to decide between their ranger duties and their daughter.
"But we could help them out, somehow. You know that they don't need to be fighting with a baby at home. That has to be doing something to them mentally and physically. It's no wonder that Dr. O is so tired when he comes to school in the morning. He's not just looking after Angie, he's having to go fight monsters every afternoon," Ashley said as they saw Conner and Kira walk by in front of them and they waved out of friendliness. They looked to be tired and battle worn possibly because of the fact that Charlie and Ashley were looking for people who were acting like that right now and possibly because of the fact that they were two of the other rangers. They didn't know, but they were sure that they needed to look out for anything like that, as they even had limits to what they could do.
"I know, but how do you ask someone about that? To do that, we'd have to admit that we were listening to them and I don't know if I want to admit that to Dr. O. He might not take it too well," Charlie said, as he did not want to have to explain every bit of it to Dr. O. He could only imagine what he would have to say to him if he tried to explain how they knew all of this and it would embarrass the living crap out of him to admit that he had listened in on their conversation, especially with some of the personal things they had said.
"Well, I think that he would just like the help and it won't hurt to ask him about it. The most he could do is yell at us and that is not too bad," Ashley said, although some would surely think that would be worth murder to admit that to someone who already knew about the rangers.
The rangers would possibly jump on each other for letting the secret out and it might make things worse of the rangers, although they hoped talking to Dr. O would prevent all of that. If they told him the truth, it wouldn't be a big deal, but if they lied, there was no telling what damage that could cause. They couldn't risk that type of damage being done to the team and Charlie and Ashley did not want to cause something like that to happen between them.
"Well, I think we should sleep on it, but Dr. O does deserve some more help. I just don't know if we're meant to be the help that they need. There are other rangers out there," Charlie said as Ashley stood up and walked over to the lakeshore. He knew that it would be rough for all of them to know this had accidentally been revealed to some people, but they would deal with it, in order to help people who needed it more.
AN: I hope that you liked this chapter. I am starting to try to build up to the final battle, so these chapters might not be long or they may be close to novel length, but I hope that you like it, no matter what. Feel free to review!