Chapter 7:

"Okay, I am going to finish my little device the morphine power tracker. It's almost finished." Billy said before going down into the lab again.

"Tommy, can we borrow your SUV?" Rocky asked carefully, he knew the man was proud of his jeep.

Tommy smiled and nodded, "Only if Adam drives." the young man in the wheelchair threw the keys to Adam. Who on his turn caught them without a problem.

"Ian, could you stay here while Kimberly drives me to town?" Jason asked while he was putting on his coat, "I need to go to town to pick up the special van I hired to drive to Angel Grove."

Ian nodded, "No problem, Jason." Kimberly took the keys of Jason's car and walked outside with him. While Adam, Rocky, and Zack made sure that Tommy's SUV was ready to go when Billy would come up from the lab.

Jason and Kimberly were on their way to the store where they had hired the wheelchair the man had a van for adapted for wheelchair patients. He had used it for his wife, who died a couple months ago and the man had been so kind to let Jason use it. Jason had explained why without revealing their past. The man of the store had warned them to be careful but he understood the fact that Tommy wanted closure for what had happened especially when he had told him that the shooter was his boyfriend's ex-girlfriend.

"We are going with you to the ruins of the command center," Kimberly said while she brought Jason.

Jason nodded but was silent. He was afraid that he would lose his temper the moment he saw Kat. Maybe it was for the best that Kim and Ian came with them. Tommy's latest team would follow them. Even Haley would drive behind them. Tommy had chosen that place for something he wanted to do for years now. Honor the one person who had given him a chance to redeem himself, besides his friends that is. The place where he felt the strongest and where nobody would come.

"It will be alright, Jason. We will be there for you and Tommy. We all be there to support you." Kimberly smiled before Jason left the car. Jason smiled, "Thank you, Kimberly. I am just afraid I will lose control of myself. I am so angry at her."

Kimberly smiled. She knew her big brother by heart all too well. He was a sweet man but a little overprotective when it came to the people he cared about.

They both arrived only thirty minutes later and they both noticed that Tommy's jeep was gone already so the guys were on their way. Time for the rest to leave to the desert of Angel Grove.

The group of friends in Tommy's jeep was about thirty minutes from the town carrying the name Cormack, where Kat's sparkle of power was last noticed by the computer. Billy startled when it began to move again, it was moving towards the airport.

"I think it's best if we hurry up, Adam. She is going to the airport." Billy almost yelled before turning behind him towards Rocky, "Rocky can you see which planes leave in the next hours in the little airport of Cormack?"

Rocky nodded and took his smartphone, "There are only a few that will leave in the next hour, one of them is going to Australia."

"Damn, hit the gas, Adam. She is going back to Australia." Zack said who had received all the stories about how Kat came into the ranger family at the welcome home party they had given for Tommy."

Adam's jaw tightened. They would all help to pay the tickets they would get but they couldn't let Kat take the airplane. If she managed to leave she would be out of their reach and was everything they had planned useless.

The Journey was uneventful and silent. Both Tommy and Jason looked out of the window in silence. Kimberly and Ian were seated in the back. They both understood the couple. Nobody was looking forward to this but it was necessary. A feeling they couldn't describe but would soon be clear just why they were pulled to that place.

Connor was driving behind them with Kira in the seat next to them and Ethan in the back seat.

Aisha, Trini, and Haley were driving behind Connor. The trip took an hour. They stopped at the end of the desert. Nobody in their right mind came here, only the once who knew where to find the ruins of the old Command Center.

It was way too hard to push the wheelchair in the sand so Jason decided to take Tommy in his arms while they took the rest of the trip on foot. Connor carried the wheelchair on his back until they arrived at the ruins. It gave them the time to remember Zordon for a moment before the hard part would start. Tommy's latest team looked in awe at the ruins. This was where it all started. They would never have been rangers if this had not existed.

Adam quickly parked the car before the group runs into the airport, almost forgetting to close up the car. They saw Kat walking looking over her shoulder but for some reason not looking in their direction.

The group split up to close her in.

Rocky and Adam were the first once she encountered.

"Going somewhere, Katherine?" Rocky asked coldly. Both men looked at her with their arms over their chests.

Kat turned around but bumped into Billy and Zack, "There is someone who likes to talk to you." Billy said.

"I think it's best you come with us, this can go the easy way or the hard way and don't bother yelling for security because they are well aware of what you did when they call to the local police station." Billy continued "and you know how persuasive we can be."

"Tommy deserves closure, Katherine." Zack just said.

Kat sighed she knew that she had no choice she was defeated but she wasn't going to go down alone. She had felt a massive amount of guilt since she had shot Tommy. She was so glad to hear that he was alive.

"I will come with you," Kat said with a tone of shame in her voice.

Tommy sat in his wheelchair in front of a stone with a carved cross, a stone only the rangers who had known Zordon knew what it meant. Jason sat on one knee next to him. He was holding Tommy's hand, who had watery eyes. Zordon had welcomed him into the team after Jason had saved him from a life full of evil.

Jason squeezed his boyfriend's hand, "I know you miss him, babe."

"We all do," Zack said with a sad voice.

Jason turned around to see Zack and Billy. His jaw tightened the moment he saw the young woman with them. Kat was walking in front of Adam and Rocky. The others closed the circle around her. Leaving her alone in the middle of the circle. Zack stood on Tommy's other side. Billy next to him. Kat was looking at the sand in front of her feet.

"I hope you have what you wanted." Jason said coldly, "and I hope it was worth it because I want you to know that you failed. I will never forgive you for what you did though. I will always love Tommy no matter what."

Kat sighed, "I know what I did was wrong and I will cooperate with the police. I was blinded by jealousy and I got the opportunity handed to me to do something about the relationship between the two of you. What I didn't expect was how hard it was to live with the guilt. I know it's a bit late for it but I am sorry."

Tommy wanted to respond to that but he was stopped when a blue light appeared and took shape of a man with a very familiar head.

"Zordon!" Tommy said shocked. The others were too surprised to say a thing. The Dino thunder rangers looked in amazement, this was the great Zordon.

"Katherine, you shocked us all with what you did. For what you did to Tommy I will take away the little protection from the morphin grid you have left." Zordon snapped his fingers and removed the last sparkle of power from her body. He had waited to do so until they understood his message and confronted her here. He was lucky that Tommy still trusted those instincts.

Kat's body grew weaker for the moment. Her body wasn't used to be without power anymore. She collapsed in the sand. "She will also forget about her past as a ranger but will never forget what she has done. For her, Tommy is nothing more than someone from high school she fell in love with. So your secret will be safe." Zordon said to the group.

"Zordon I thought you were gone forever," Jason said.

"I will always live in your heart and you made a way for me to live on when you made this little stone. I don't have much time. Jason, bring Tommy into the middle and place him into the sand. Tommy, I want you to lay down for me." Zordon said softly. After all, this was much to take in.

Jason had always trusted Zordon and so did Tommy so he did what Zordon asked and placed him where Kat just had collapsed but had been helped aside.

"With this Tommy, you will always have a piece of me inside you. It will protect you and Jason from further attacks. May you live happily and let my power protect you." With those words, a blue light escaped Zordon's hands and circled around Tommy.

Jason took a step aside when his boyfriend started to float. until he stood straight on his two legs the power disappearing inside him through his legs. Zordon had helped the original ranger even after his death.

"May the power protect you all," Zordon said before fading again.

Tommy was shocked. Zordon had healed him. He was walking again. He jumped into Jason's arms crying happy tears. Something he never thought possible happened. This was the beginning of a new chapter in their lives.

Kat had confessed everything, except the things Zordon had made her forget to protect his other rangers. She had pointed out Jason's father as the brains behind the plan. They both got life behind bars without a chance for parole. Kat would always feel guilty for what she did.

Tommy really started a new chapter in his life, six months after his healing he and Jason said yes to each other. Not really a marriage but a bond for life between two rangers. For them, it was much more than a marriage. Their past had bond their future.

The End