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Author's Notes: Thank you for all of your reviews. I'm so sorry that this took so long. My computer crashed and I didn't have time to use any one else's. If you've been patient with me I thank you.
Chapter Three
Aisha and Trini smiled beneath their helmets at Kim's comment, also seeing the immense irony of the situation they had been recently thrust into. What with Tommy having just finished a run with being a ranger, and all three of the men having been rangers who generally came to the rescue, it was interesting to have the tables turned and see them needing the help.
They started to fight against the birds, getting readjusted to having the power flowing through their veins, and the strength that it came with. As they fought, they rounded up the birds in one location, while Tommy, Adam, and Jason gathered by a tree and started to catch their breaths, content in allowing the rangers to handle the overgrown birds.
The three women were calling on their weapons, ready to finish destroying the birds, when Tengas vanished in a flash of crimson light. The rangers looked to each other for a moment as the sky started to darken to a black, concerned that the fight wasn't quite as over as they had thought. Their thoughts were confirmed when a flash of red lighting appeared on the sky that's bolt came down to the ground, remaining a few seconds. When it disappeared, a young woman in a black silk gown was standing in it's place. She held in her hand a small scepter, with a dark red gem that appeared almost black. "So…I see that you humans can reach the Great Power. I suppose I should rethink my strategy now, seeing as I have you three to deal with now."
"Let me help you with that, Mara." Kim stepped so she was slightly in front of Trini and Aisha as she spoke. "Pack your bags and leave. That's the only way your going to survive this fight."
Mara laughed, stepping forward so she was much closer to Kim. "You mistake…what is it? Hawk Ranger?" She waited for no confirmation. "Well you mistake Hawk Ranger. The only way you're going to survive this fight is if you leave, and give your powers to me." She shoved Kim to the ground with a surprising force.
Trini and Aisha went to help Kim but she waved them off, pushing herself off the ground. Aisha then turned to Mara. "Guess the whole part about villains being completely insane hasn't changed much."
"I'm not insane. I'm actually being quite nice by warning you." The evil smile that was on her face melted away and all that was left was a stone-cold glare. "I want Earth. And nothing, and nobody, is going to stop me. You can expect to hear from me again. I hope you don't have anything important to do anytime soon." Mara held her scepter up , sending a three blasts of red towards Trini, Kim, and Aisha, that sent them to the ground, and then three blasts towards Jason, Adam, and Tommy that seemed to shock them for a few moments but otherwise did nothing. Afterwards, a bolt of red lighting came down and Mara went back up into the sky with it.
In the few minutes aftermath, Jason, Adam, and Tommy watched as the three rangers slowly picked themselves up and the sky began to lighten and go back to it's original clear and sunny appearance. They stood, over the shock that came from two sources; Mara's scepter, and seeing three new rangers. "Who do you think they are?" Jason asked quietly, watching the rangers huddle in a discussion.
"Human girls is all I can tell." Tommy shook his head. "Somebody must have known that Mara woman was coming and sent them up to Phados. She said they had the Great Power."
"They've been rangers before." Adam spoke up quietly. "One of the yellows…she said that villains haven't changed. They've encountered evil before."
Jason opened his mouth to speak, but was cut off by the three rangers coming over to them. The group opened up into a line, so each was in line with one of the rangers.
"Are you three all right?" One yellow, the emblem of a crane on her chest, asked.
"We're fine." Tommy answered for the group.
"We want to thank you for helping in the fight against the Tengas until we got here." The pink ranger extended her gloved hand, shaking Tommy's, then Jason's, then Adam's. "We would also like to give you an explanation. You don't know a place where we could go that's a bit more private do you?"
The three looked at each other for a moment and exchanged a glance. Jason was the first to look back to the rangers. "There's always my place."
"Great." The second yellow, with the emblem of the swallow. "Let's go."
Each ranger held out a hand, and each guy took one, and in a brief second they were teleporting in six streaks of light.
The six landed in a living room and were silent for a moment. "So what is it that you wanted to explain to us?" Tommy finally asked. He was the most accustomed to coming across rangers, so he was the most in tune with the situation.
"Power down."
The three rangers echoed the phrase and their suits faded from them leaving them in their street clothes, and revealing the familiar faces of Kim, Aisha, and Trini. "Oh my god…you guys didn't." Jason grinned, stepping forward closing the gap between the groups and pulling Trini into a hug, followed by Aisha, followed by Kim. The others started to do the same.
"We didn't what?" Kim questioned, putting her hands on her hips after completing the cycle of hugs. Although they had surprised the boys just now, she was pretty surprised to see them herself.
"Pull a Tommy and appear out of a supposed retirement with new powers." Adam answered her question.
"Hey we didn't switch colors. In order to pull a Tommy you have to switch colors." Everyone except Tommy laughed at Trini's comment.
"I resent that." Tommy protested.
"You resemble it." Aisha retorted just as quickly.
"No seriously…what are you guys doing with powers?" Jason looked at them, as they shared a knowing look.
"It's a long story." Trini informed. "The short of it is that Dulcea found out about Mara and she brought us up to Phaedos."
"So once more we're defenders of the planet." Aisha smirked. "The title that just rolls off of the tongue."
"Tell you what?" Kim began. "We'll give you a longer version after we have lunch and catch up."
"Sounds great. I'll order us some pizza."
"So who's gonna go first?" Jason put two boxes of pizza on the kitchen table that was surrounded by the entire reunited group. He glanced around quickly to check that they all had drinks and then took a seat in between Trini and Kim.
"I will." Kim started serving herself with a slice of the steaming pizza. "I competed in the games and graduated high school. I wanted to take a year off and catch up on having a life, but I got some endorsement deal offers and I took one for this sports drink." She held up her bottle of water, putting on a fake smile. "Liquid Ambrosia; the drink that gives you the strength of the gods." The smile faded and the bottle went back onto the table as the rest of the group laughed. "It was honestly one of the most disgusting things I have ever tasted, but it sold really well after the campaign and it led to more deals for gymnastics equipment, which led to modeling for sports magazines and stuff like that, and that led to me starting acting. I did some minor guest spots and other jobs and then I decided that I was finally ready to go back to college and that's where I am now. I'm a junior working towards my degree in physical therapy."
"You've been busy." Tommy remarked quietly, looking at his own plate which he had yet to fill with the pizza.
"I guess." Kim shrugged. "What about you?"
There was a certain air of awkwardness between the two as they started to talk, and neither were doing a very good job of ignoring it. "Well my past you all pretty much know about. I developed the Dino Powers, the island blew up, I went to teach at Reefside, Mesagog showed up, I became a Power Ranger again, we destroyed Mesagog along with the powers, and that's that. Lately I've been thinking about moving back here."
Trini took a sip of her iced tea. "I finished the peace conference and went to college in New York. I got a degree in Ancient World Cultures and now I'm a professor of the said subject, at the same school. I guess now I might think about transferring to a college closer to here. What about you Jase?"
"Well I decided to stay in Europe after the Peace Conference and I went to college in Switzerland. Right after I graduated I ran into Adam. We got caught up, and he convinced me to come back to the States, and now we're running the Youth Center together. Aisha?"
"I've just been working in Africa. I was coming back to the states anyway. I guess that my location has been narrowed down to Angel Grove, but I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life now that I'm not going to be working on a plague."
"You'll figure something out." Adam assured. "And if you don't you'll just get a college degree that you have no idea what you'll do with and then you won't actually end up using it that much. That's what happened with me anyways. I stayed in Angel Grove, went to school here, and got a degree in business. After graduation I went backpacking in Europe and ran into Jason. You heard the rest."
"It sounds like we've all been pretty busy." Kim remarked before biting into her pizza.
"Mostly you and Tommy." Jason remarked quietly.
"Uh…yeah." Kim wiped her hands on a napkin. "About that…Tommy can we talk?"
"What?" Tommy turned to her, surprised a bit. "Umm…yeah. We should."
"Good." Kim put the napkin on her plate and stood. "Jase can we use your living room."
"Yeah. Take your time."
"We'll be back in a little bit guys."
OK. There's this chapter. Again, I'm really sorry about the delay. Thoughts?