Chapter five:

Jaslee shifted uncomfortably as the line got closer and closer, this was going to be fun, she kept telling herself, but she wasn't buying it. Something was making her hair on the back of her neck stand on it's end, something was wrong, something was horribly wrong.

"Are you okay Jaslee?" another little girl asked, noticing that Jaslee was shaking uncontrollably.

Jaslee shook her head trying to figure out what was wrong. She knew something was wrong, but she didn't know what and that was the first time that had happened, "I don't know," she confessed, "but I feel like something is wrong."

"Are you scared to go into the fire truck?" Her friend asked, "It can't be that much different from a Zord and you've been in a hundred of those."

"I've never even seen a Zord," Jaslee insisted, it was not a lie she hadn't really seen a Zord with her own two eyes, but she had seen them in visions from her parent past.

"But your parents are power rangers."

The line was getting closer to the fire truck and Jaslee was finally able to get a close look at the fireman that was lifting the kids into the fire truck so they could climb around on it. Something about that man reminded her of Luke, but he was dead and so was Goldar and Silverback so what was wrong with this guy. The rest of the half dozen or so firefighters weren't like him, they were nice. That man however was bad.

It was now Jaslee's turn the man bent down and started to pick her up, but Jaslee reacted instinctively, she did not like this man and she was not going to allow him to pick her up. So she did a kick she had seen her father teaching an older class at the gym, causing him to double over in pain. Now Jaslee knew she did something wrong, so she quickly fled through the doors and outside.

...

It was turning into one of those days for Kimberly, and she couldn't help but wonder if those moms that insist on staying to gossip realized that she could hear every word they said.

From being a power ranger to a new version of how her ex had passed away, they never seemed to tire or run out of things to say on their favorite topic, all while the subject of their conversation tried to tune them out as she taught their children.

Luckily for her, she still had Zordon, and Zordon always knew exactly what to say. While Kim watched the children practice their somersaults, he saddled up to her, "This is your place of business," he whispered, "they have no right to talk about you at all, let alone in front of you."

Kim shook her head, "I don't want to cause a scene."

"You don't have to," Zordon pointed out, "just tell them that this is your business and that if they want to keep coming here they are going to have to stop talking about you. I can tell that the rumours are really upsetting you, Tommy and your siblings."

"Siblings?" Kim asked, she hadn't heard anything from her former teammates in a while, it was like now that the threat was over they forgot all about her.

"Yes," Zordon said, "Billy gave someone a black eye the other day."

Now if Zordon had said Jason, Zack, Rocky or Adam she would have nodded in understanding, if it had been Trini, Aisha or Kat she might have been interested in what had been said, but with Billy she wasn't sure she wanted to know what was said.

"Billy!" Kim blurted out, causing students and parents alike to look her way.

Zordon nodded, a smile threatening his lips as his daughter tried to process the fact that Billy had punched someone, "I thought Zack was trying to scam me when he called asking for money to help bail Billy out of jail."

"He was arrested!" By this time Kim had totally forgotten about the class she was suppose to be teaching.

"Well, he did punch Angel Grove's mayor." Zordon said, "Luckily it caused more damage to the mayor's re election campaign than Billy, whole thing got recorded. Mayor tried to spin it, but..." Zordon trailed off, shaking his head. Yes violence wasn't the best option, but if the mayor had told him what he had told Billy, that black eye would be nothing compared to what he would have done.

Kim would have responded if it wasn't for the fact that the door to the gym burst opened and a little girl rushed in, grabbing hold of Kim's legs and letting out a loud sob.

"Jaslee!" She gasped in shock, how had her oldest got clear across town without her being notified by the school before she arrived?"

...

Tommy felt like the interview went well, once he convinced them to leave the rumours were they were at. However he hadn't even left the room when his phone rung.

"Hello," he asked tentatively.

"I don't know if I should be disturbed or rolling in the floor laughing. How do you get yourself into these types of situations?"

"you're going to have to be more specific TJ," he sighed, hoping no-one would connect TJ with TJ Johnson, being in contact with a known power ranger wouldn't help his claim that those rumors were just rumors.

"Your daughter kicked a man and ran off, the man is now trying to convince us police that she is a danger to society and needs to be locked up."

"Did you point out the fact she's only five?" Tommy asked jokingly, "And while your at it, do some digging on this man, Jaslee didn't attack without a very good reason to."

"I sometimes wonder what life would be like if I never met you," TJ confessed.

" You'll die from boredom."