A/N I tried posting this chapter and then I had to delete it because it somehow got messed up. I hope it looks normal now. Sorry it took so long to post!

The next morning, Kim drove Kira and the twins to the airport. When they got there, the four of them went to the place where their parents' gates would let out. About ten minutes after they got there, Max pointed to the gate and called out, "Dad!".

Kim's mother and stepfather were walking towards them, arms open. Max ran to his father and Lily crutched quickly to her mother. The parents gushed over the twins and made sure to hug them both. Kim and Kira stayed back, letting the others enjoy their reunion.

After a minute of hugs, Kim's mother, Madison, looked up and noticed Kim. Madison already had tears in her eyes, but many more appeared as mother and daughter ran to each other. Kim, who also had tears in her eyes, managed to choke out, "Hi, Mom."

Madison pulled Kim back to arm's length to look at her. "My little girl has grown up."

"Mom, I am so sorry –" Kim started, but her mother interrupted.

"I know, it's ok. I do want to know what happened, but I am just so glad to see you." Madison said.

As the two hugged again, Pierre put his hand on Kim's shoulder. Without letting go of her mother, Kim looked up and they nodded at each other. Pierre then went up to Kira, who stayed back still. He put his hand on her shoulder.

"Thank you," Pierre said with the utmost sincerity. "Thank you." He squeezed her shoulder and Kira smiled.

When Kim and her mother separated from each other, everyone wiped their tears and Kim said, "Alright, we are heading to Jason's dojo to meet some friends who also need to hear this explanation."

When Kim, Kira, the twins, and Kim's mom and stepdad got to Jason's dojo, Jason, Kat, and a couple of the former rangers were already there. Kat met Kim at the door and asked, "Do you want me to watch the twins during this? I already know the whole story and I am not sure they are old enough to hear every detail of what happened."

Kim nodded and thanked her friend. "Lily and Max, this is my friend Kat. Do you want to go hang out with her while the rest of us are busy?"

"I want to stay and hear everything!" Max said.

"Max, you and Lily go with Katherine. Please," Pierre said. When the twins saw the look in their father's eyes, they did not argue. They followed Kat into a side room, and Jason led Kira, Kim, and her parents into the meeting room on the other side of the dojo. Within the next ten minutes, everyone who was supposed to be there was present, except for Serge. A couple of minutes went by, and finally Kim got impatient.

"Does anyone know when Serge is going to get here?" she asked.

"I'm here, I'm here," Serge said, coming into the room. "Sorry I'm late. I had to pick up a special surprise."

"What do you mean, a special surprise?" Kim asked.

Serge grinned and moved out of the doorway. The door opened, and in came Arthur Hart, Kim's father. Kim yelled, "Dad!" and ran towards her father, who was waiting with his arms open. He spun her around as she jumped into his arms. Tears were starting to form in Kim's eyes.

"I thought you couldn't get out here until next week at the earliest!" Kim said.

Her father smiled. "I haven't seen my only child in over 15 years. I was not going to wait another day to see you."

Kim gave Mr. Hart one more quick hug and brought her dad to sit in the chair next to her. "Okay, I think I should go around really quick and do introductions because you all don't really know each other. I think all of you know Jason. Next to him is Zack, then Billy, Tommy, Aisha, Rocky, Adam, and Tanya. I think all of you have also met Kat. She volunteered to watch my brother and sister in another room because she already knows everything and Lily and Max are not old enough to hear the whole story. I told them an abbreviated version last night."

"How are Lily and Max?" Aisha asked.

"They are ok. Lily has a broken leg and Max has a mild concussion. But nothing life-threatening so that is good." Kim said before continuing with introductions. "Ok, so next to Tanya is Sergeant Greg Parker, then Ed Lane, our team leader, then Constable Michelangelo "Spike" Scarlatti, Constable Kevin "Wordy" Wordsworth, and Constable Leah Kerns. Next to Leah is Sam Braddock, he used to be a member of our team before he moved away. Next to Sam is Kira Ford. She is Lily and Max's babysitter. Next is my stepdad, Pierre, my mother, Madison, and my dad, Arthur. So, I think that is everyone."

Kim took a deep breath and got ready to tell her story. "If you didn't already catch on, my real name is Kimberly Anne Hart. 15 years ago, I changed my name to Julianna Callahan. Some of you know me as Kim and some of you know me as Jules. Call me whichever you prefer, I will answer to both.

"To start off, as I said, my real name is Kim. I was born and raised in Angel Grove, California. I grew up with my mom and dad. They divorced when I was a teenager and then my mom got remarried to Pierre when I was 17. Mom and Pierre moved to Pierre's hometown in France, and I moved in with my dad (A/N I know she moved in with Aisha but just go with it). Growing up, I loved gymnastics."

Kim saw the look of confusion on her team's faces. "I know, you would never know it now, but I was really good. When I was a senior in High School, I got recruited by my coach to train full time with him at his gym in Florida. My dad and I moved out to Florida so I could train for the Pan Globals.

"But before I tell the main part of the story, I have something else I need to tell you." Kim turned to the side of the room that her old friends were on. "If there are any negative consequences, it will be on me. I'm sorry, but I have to tell my team about us."

Billy looked concerned. "Kim, you can't."

"I have to. My team and I put our lives into each other's hands every day, just like our team used to. If they can't trust me, we have a problem. And I know I already put strain everyone's trust by not telling you all the second part of my story. I need to come completely clean." Kim turned to face the rest of the table. "Do all of you know what Power Rangers are?"

"You mean those people with colored spandex and powers who fight monsters?" Spike asked.

Kim nodded. The team mumbled their familiarity with the rangers.

"Well," Kim started, "We were the Power Rangers. And last night's reunion was not just a get together with old friends, it was a ranger reunion."

Team One did not react that quickly, but Kim's family spoke with confusion. "What do you mean?" Kim's mom asked. "You were a ranger? How did we not know?"

"Honestly, I don't know how more people didn't figure us out. We literally wore our colors every day." Once everyone got over their shock, Kim continued. "I was the original pink ranger, Jason was the original red ranger, Zack was the original black ranger, Billy was the original blue ranger, and-" Kim paused. "And our friend Trini, who passed away, not because of anything ranger-related, was the original yellow ranger. When our villain, Rita Rapulsa, decided she wanted her own evil ranger, so she created an evil green power coin. Power coins were how we got our power, and they drew on dinosaur spirits. Tommy had just moved to town and rivaled Jason in karate, so she gave the evil coin to Tommy. He became the evil green ranger for a bit, but we were able to break the spell on him. He fought on our side for a short time as the green ranger, but because the powers were meant for evil, they were unstable and Tommy had to give up the coin. Zordon and Alpha, the beings who gave us our powers, created a white power coin and gave it to Tommy, who took over as our leader. Soon after, Jason, Zack, and Trini were given the opportunity to go to Europe for the International Teen Peace Conference. Rocky replaced Jason as red ranger, Aisha replaced Trini as yellow, and Adam replaced Zack as black. When I moved to Florida, I gave the pink power coin to Kat, who had recently moved to town. And then I was not there for this but I believe Aisha left Angel Grove to be closer to family in Africa, and Tanya took her place as yellow ranger."

Kim paused, letting everyone take in the information that was thrown at them. "Any questions so far?"

Sam raised his hand. "Let me get this straight. You were a power ranger. And you were a pink power ranger. And you fought aliens and monster with powers given to you by people named Zordon and Alpha?"

"Well, actually, Zordon and Alpha weren't people. They were also aliens, as you put it. But they came to Earth to protect it. Alpha was similar to an android, I guess. Zordon was a powerful being who was essentially a floating head in a tube."

All of the non-rangers made faces at that last part.

"Now that that is over, I guess it's onto the hard part. So I moved to Florida partway through my senior year of high school. I trained with my Coach, Coach Schmidt, and everything was going great. I made two really good friends. Their names are Jack and Amelia. Both of them are two years older than me and had been training with Coach Schmidt for years. The three of us became best friends. Well, I was more of a third wheel because Jack and Amelia had been dating since before I got there, but they welcomed me into their circle and never made me feel like a third wheel.

"I'm getting off track, sorry. I was training, and things were going good. I somehow started getting some fans soon after I got to Florida. They would write fan mail every now and then. But I would get mail weekly from someone named Carter." She paused. "The letters started out sweet, like the typical fan mail. But then, he started saying some things that started to creep me out. Like, he would mention places I had been in the past week like we went there together. I don't really know how to explain it. They were starting to get a little concerning, but I did not think they were too serious. When Christmas came around, I visited Angel Grove.

"After Christmas, I went back to Florida. A couple of weeks went by and nothing out of the ordinary happened. Then, one day, I was stretching and getting ready for my turn doing floorwork. Amelia was on the balance beam, which was right next to where I was. Jack was on the guys side of the gym. Everything was fine. And then there was a crash from the guys side. I looked over and I saw that Jack was under the pommel horse. I looked up at Amelia and she looked nervous. Then her eyes got even wider as the balance beam fell out from underneath her. The mats under the beam were not placed properly and she hit her head on the base of the beam. They were both rushed to the hospital."

Kim paused, readying herself to go on. "Jack became paralyzed from the waist down. Amelia hit her head so hard that she had brain damage. Now, if you knew me back then, you know how much I loved gymnastics. But these two loved it even more, and that, along with a normal life, was taken away from them. But at the time, we thought it was an accident. A really coincidental and terrible accident, but an accident none the less.

"When I got back to the apartment that night, I found a letter on my front door. It was from Carter. In the letter, Carter said that he was the one who rigged the equipment to fail when my closest friends were using them."

"How did he know he would hurt specifically your friends?" Ed asked.

"Our training schedules used to be posted at the door, and anyone could see them and know where any athlete was supposed to be at any time during training."

"That does not seem like the best plan," Adam said.

Kim shook her head. "It wasn't, but no one thought someone would use that to anyone."

"But why did he do it?" Wordy asked.

"He wanted me to know that he was being serious, that he would not hesitate to act on his threats if I didn't follow exactly what he said."

"What threats? What did he tell you to do?" Zack asked.

Kim took a deep breath. "He said that I had to break off all of my ties with my friends in Angel Grove because he wanted me all to himself. He wanted to have power over me. If I talked to anyone in Angel Grove, he would hurt some of my friends back home. Given the fact he had nearly killed two of my friends already, I took it seriously."

Kim waited for a second to prepare for what would come after her next revelation.

"Attached to the letter from Carter was a photocopy of a Dear John letter 'I wrote' breaking up with Tommy," Kim said, using air quotes.

"Wait, so you didn't write that letter?" Tommy asked zeroing in on Kim, who shook her head. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I couldn't," Kim started. "If I tried to tell you, Carter would have hurt someone because I wasn't following his rules. And I did not want anyone else to get hurt because of me."

"We could have taken care of ourselves if he did. We were the freaking power rangers," Tommy said, getting a little heated.

"I'm not saying you all couldn't have held your own if Carter came after you, but I didn't want to put you in the line of fire at all," Kim said. "And one of the rules of being a ranger was that you could never use your powers against humans. So if Carter came after you, you would be on your own. As far as I know, you have fought monsters trying to kill you, but you could use powers on them, and you have fought humans in karate tournaments, but you have never fought a human who was trying to kill you. Again, it's not that I don't have faith in your fighting abilities, I just never wanted to put you in that position.

"And you guys weren't my only friends in Angel Grove. You were my closest friends, but not my only friends. What about Ernie? Do you think he could fend off anyone trying to hurt him? Or even Bulk and Skull? God knows they were not our friends but we spent so much time around them that Carter could have decided to go after them. Can you imagine Bulk and Skull fighting someone trying to hurt them?"

"But we could have protected them," Tommy said.

"No," Kim started. "You couldn't have. You guys had the job of protecting the city from monsters. What would have happened if Carter did something while you were in the middle of a battle? It wouldn't have taken him long to stab someone walking in the park. He could have gone into Ernie's, shot up the place and left before you even knew something was wrong. And what if you guys weren't even in Angel Grove, huh? What if you weren't even on Earth? Remember that time everyone but me went to Alpha's home planet when he thought something was wrong? Rita sent a monster down and I had to fight it myself. With the flu! Which is the only reason I was even still on Earth and able to fight. If I didn't have the flu, I would have gone with you guys to Alpha's home planet and the monster would have had no one to stop him. And with that, if some human decided to hurt someone, I would not have been able to break away from the fight to help them.

"And what about Phados? When Ivan Ooze destroyed our powers, the six of us went to the planet Phados to find new powers, and we left Angel Grove defenseless for a couple of days. And in that time, Ooze was able to get control of the minds of every adult in Angel Grove and turn them into his slaves. They would have all died when Ooze told them to walk off a cliff if the kids of the town didn't rally together and save them with… I can't believe I am saying this but with the help of Bulk and Skull."

"But we had to go! We couldn't stop Ooze without our powers so we had to go get other ones!" Tommy said.

"Yes, but that is my point! We left Angel Grove so we could get what we needed to save it. But we still had to leave it. We couldn't be everywhere at once. We couldn't protect everyone at all times." Kim paused. "I didn't say I did everything right, but I was a scared 17-year-old who just saw two of her friends get hurt because of her and didn't want to see anyone else get hurt. But it didn't work." Kim looked down.

"What do you mean, it didn't work?" Rocky asked. "Who did he hurt?"

When Kim looked back up, she had some tears in her eyes. "We are missing someone here today. Someone who should be sitting right about there." Kim pointed between Zack and Billy.

It took a second for people to think, but then Billy whispered, "Trini?"

All of the former rangers were taken aback. "I thought she was killed in a hit and run!" Tanya said. The others murmured their confusion as well.

"It was so much more than that," Kim said.

A/N I hope you enjoyed! There is more to the explanation, but that will be coming in the next chapter. I had hoped to make the explanation one long chapter but I was supposed to update this story a long time ago so I wanted to post something. I hope to get the next chapter up soon!