Disclaimer: I do not own the power rangers or any of the weapons and/or original characters from that series. This is the third story in the "Saving the World, Again" series, so any characters from those stories that are mine, might be brought in. I do own the character Ally Jameson as I know she will appear in this story a good bit and I just wanted to let you know that she is my character from the beginning. I also own the characters of Janice Mitchell, Principal McEntire, Mallory Wiggins, David Jackson, Mrs. Thornsby, and Alabaster.
Now, on with the Story!
Good-Bye Alpha
Alpha's POV
I have been here in this place for over two years and I now feel as if my work here is done, I have finally finished my work with these rangers. I was fulfilling the duty that Zordon asked me to fulfill years ago, before any of us knew what was going to happen to all of them and what danger they were going to be in. I do not know how they will take my leaving, but it is time for me to go back to the Space Rangers. There are many more things I can work on there and I can monitor them, in case I ever have to come back, which is something that I do not wish to do, because that would mean that they were being attacked again.
"Alpha, where are you going?" Tommy asked as he walked down into the Command Center and saw that Alpha held his metal suitcase in his hand. This did not look good for all of them and he did not think that Kim was going to be happy to see what was going on downstairs, if she came down there at all. They had recovered from their drainage, but they still were not completely ready to let go of Alpha, because that was one step closer to changing everything else about their lives that they had had there for so many years.
"Back to the Space Rangers. You will have to hide this place from Angie, very soon. Since you have managed to defeat Mesogogg and Lord Zedd. You can always contact me, if it is necessary," Alpha said, as Kim walked down the stairs and gave Alpha the look that Tommy had only a few seconds before. They did not seem to be happy about this, but he was doing this out of necessity and they would thank him for it, someday. It was much easier for him to leave now, instead of waiting for them to become more attached than they already were to him and he didn't want to give Angie that chance. He knew what it would do to them if she cried because he left.
"Alpha, come on. What if something happens in the next few weeks? What if we can't figure out how to shut down the Command Center? Why would you leave so soon?" Tommy asked, as Kim got the picture and she, momentarily, forgot of the real reason that she came down here to talk to him. She did not want for Alpha to leave them so soon, but she couldn't think of anything to say to possibly stop him.
"Tommy there is much that you do not know about the rangers and Zordon. I am not leaving you to try to answer those questions on your own. There is a box of videos in the storage closet. Watch them at your leisure, but remember that you need to know the information inside of them. It will explain much more to you than I ever could," Alpha said, as he reached towards the teleportation module. He did not like long good-byes and he hoped that they would understand it, once they had watched the videos. "Good-bye."
"Bye, Alpha," Tommy managed to say, as Kim stared at the spot where Alpha had been seconds before and then looked over at Tommy, hoping that he would not confirm what she had seen, but he merely shook his head yes. It was then that she remembered the crying baby upstairs and asked Tommy the question that had been on her mind when she walked down the stairs.
"Tommy, did you buy any formula the other day?" Kim asked, as she had briefly searched the kitchen, but she had not found any. She did breast feed Angie some, but she had thought that she was going to be leaving the house soon. That plan, however, had just been changed for her. She had to see those videos, now. She couldn't just leave with this type of information dangling in front of her for her to find out.
"No, sorry, I didn't think about it," Tommy said, as he went towards the storage closet and opened the door, thinking he would have to search the closet for the videos. He didn't have to do that; Alpha had left the trunk right inside of the room. He must have known that they would go to watch it right after he left them and was making it easier on them. "You coming back down here?"
"Yeah, just give me a few seconds to get Angie and settle her down some," Kim said, as Tommy began digging through the videos to find the ones that were for their viewing. He, however, was distracted by Angie's cries, as Kim walked down the stairs with her in her arms.
"Can you find it? I'll hold her for you," Tommy said, as Kim nodded her head yes and went to find the videos in question. She was able to quickly locate them, but she noticed some rather odd things about the videos, on the whole. They were addressed to couples and it seemed Zordon had known much more than they did about themselves when he had left this planet. If only they had known these things then, maybe they would have been able to avoid some of the things that had happened.
"Tommy, there are videos for the others. We're going to have to make a trip to Angel Grove so that they will be able to hear whatever he wanted to say to them," Kim said, as she stuck in the first video and then came to sit down on the couch next to Tommy and gingerly took Angie out of his arms. She had to feed her child and then she was just hoping to hold herself together through these videos. She didn't know how easy that was going to be, but she was going to try and then just hope Tommy was ready for it all to come crashing down around him.
"Tommy, Kimberly. I know that this means I am gone if you are seeing this video and I know that it means Alpha has just left you, whether it be for the first or the third time, I do not know. These were my instructions to Alpha and I am sure that he followed him, down to labeling the videos for each of you. Please do not be mad at him. I wished for him to come and help, then leave you quickly. There are other rangers that need his help as well and he will always be there if you need the help," Zordon said, pausing to think and they didn't speak as they waited for him to continue. Tommy knew when that had been filmed and he could not believe how much confidence Zordon had had in them back then. It just seemed impossible, considering the circumstances that had been going on around them. He wished he would have learned more about Zordon's past, but it didn't seem like that was what he wanted to talk about at all. "Now, I know that you may not be together, but I had the hopes of seeing the two of you together in the same room without fighting, forgive me if I was wrong about how this would all turn out. I have never told either of you, but there is a box in the old Command Center, you may have found it already. Inside, there is half of a power coin, for each of you. I know that the both of you have been retired for years, but there may come a time in the near future when you are needed again. I emphasize may here, I really do think that you will be retired after Alpha leaves you all of these things. These coins hold remnants of all the powers you have ever had. If the time comes, come together and morph, it will protect from destruction during an unexpected battle. If your identity becomes known to the world, do NOT ever morph again, though. The public should not know, so only allow a few to get close enough to know it. Now, get some rest. You will need it."
"That was odd. Do you think he was talking about Mesogogg?" Tommy asked as Kim slumped closer to him. It now made sense why that coin had thrown her across the room, but she wondered what that meant for Aisha and Zack. They didn't have any protection because they could not open their boxes at all. Was that an omen or did Zordon, again, have a better idea of the future than they had?
"I don't know, but I hope that he was. Tommy, you want watch another one?" Kim asked, as Tommy nodded his head yes. Angie had fallen asleep against him, soon after Kim had passed him to her after her feeding, and Kim looked worried. She was afraid that they would eventually hear bad news from Zordon and she was not sure how to take that from him right now.
"Let the crying begin," Tommy muttered as a picture flashed on the screen and Kim stood behind the chair, unable to move. She had been shocked by Zordon, again and he was afraid that she would faint. "Kim?"
"Tommy, there is no way. He could not have been there to see that," Kim said quietly as Zordon appeared and Tommy walked up behind her and caught her by the waist. He had laid Angie down in the playpen before he had ran over to catch her, knowing that he was not going to have much time to do that if he walked.
"Catch her, Tommy. I know that she is a little bit surprised and no, I was not at your wedding, but I told Alpha to place the picture on here for you to see. Tommy, do you remember when I told you that she would come back to you? I know you do, but I can now tell you why I was so confident about it, when you barely believed the words coming out of my mouth. Before I came to Earth, there was a legend told to me about the rangers that I would work with. There were two rangers that were supposed to be the strongest and the surest of all, yet they would lose each other by a great mistake, for lack of a better word.
"I, at first, thought it would be Jason and Kimberly to fulfill this legend, but they did not. They were only ever friends and I found that out very soon after they became rangers. After a few months, I gave up on that prophecy and then the prophecy of the sixth ranger came true.
"Tommy, you were more than renewed hope to the team; you were the missing piece of the puzzle of the prophecy, but I did not realize it at first. That was my mistake and I should have warned the two of you, but I couldn't I am binded by a contract to not tell you anything. When the two of you fell in love, I hated to sit back and watch, knowing what was going to happen to the two of you. When Kim went to Florida, I began preparing others on the team for the inevitable, except for Katherine; she knew nothing of it. She was not supposed to know anything of it, she did not know the team as it was with Kim and she was better off not knowing about the prophecy. Tommy, everything that happened was predicted to me by those on my home planet. Down to Kimberly being captured by an evil force, long after she had given up her powers.
"Now, if life has blessed you as much as I think it has, I want you to listen well to me. There are some trials ahead, you may have faced them or they may still be to come, but do not allow it to break you. You are too strong and you have been through far too much. Now, since I know you did not rest after the first video, take her upstairs and do not watch anymore today. Think about all of this," Zordon ordered as Tommy nodded his head, Kim was still barely able to move, even in his arms.
"Tommy, why did Zordon tell us that? What does it have to do with us now?" Kim asked, as he turned her towards the stairs and went to go pick Angie up out of the playpen he had laid her in.
"Because he knew we would need some reassurance from all of it. You can't tell me that you've never thought about it," Tommy said, as Kim had sat down in the kitchen and was trying not to break down. She couldn't handle seeing Zordon again, after Alpha had left. She had barely been able to keep things straight in her mind when she was downstairs. It was getting much worse right now. "Kim, sweetie, it's getting close to supper. Do you want me to go into town to get us something?"
"Sure, but Tommy, when you get back, can you explain everything to me?" Kim asked, as he nodded his head and then placed Angie in her arms.
"I'll be back in a little while," Tommy said, as Kim nodded her head and then took a deep breath. She really was going to be alone for awhile and she had no clue what to do right now.
Upon Return"When did this happen?" Kim asked, imploringly as Tommy merely looked down at his plate and sighed. He had to remember the details, but he knew the story by heart, he just had to tell it to her.
"Right after we got back from defeating Divatox. I came in hell bent to know the truth, to know everything that Zordon knew about us. He knew much more than I did and I knew he was holding something back. I insisted that he say something, anything to me. That was when he told me that you would come back. He didn't tell me when, he didn't tell me where, but he told me. That probably tested him more than anything else, he probably was not supposed to even tell me that much, but it gave me hope. That was all I needed, it gave me the strength to go ahead and do what I had to do. Kimberly, I've made a fool of myself several times in front of Zordon and the rangers, but this was the first time I ever felt that making a fool of myself got me a straight answer. It was well worth it," Tommy said with a smile as Kim sat there, still slightly confused. He had answered her question, but it still didn't seem to be enough.
"What exactly did you say to Zordon to make a fool of yourself Tommy?" Kim asked as he looked over at her and his face was slightly red.
"It's not appropriate to repeat in front of children, Kim," Tommy muttered as she laughed. That was a great excuse, she just wondered how long it would take her to pry it out of him.
"Thomas Oliver, what did you say?" Kim asked, again, as he sighed. He absolutely hated when she used his full first name, but it got him to answer about anything she wanted to know.
"I wanted to know what in the hell these evil people were thinking to take you, when they didn't even know a damn about you, more or less," Tommy said, as Kim gave him a hug. He was glad that she was happy with that answer. He was not sure if he could tell her the whole truth of that event.
AN: I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter, there are only two more chapters left and I hope that you will enjoy those as well!