Beth could feel the final battle approaching. It was heralded the same way the others had been. The feeling was bittersweet. She knew it would be over soon, but she realized that she would then face a struggle far worse than Lothor's plot.

-Time Skip-

Beth was disappointed in Hunter. She knew first hand the feelings came with loosing your parents, but that was no excuse for shutting your family out. Doing so only hurts them. Beth knew that pain as well.

Beth pushed that thought aside. She didn't like to think about it, because that hurt hadn't healed like the others. She had managed not to think about her sister for four years. She wasn't about to start now. Her attention was needed elsewhere.

-Time Skip-

Beth had never wished she had a zord more than she did at that moment. Watching the other rangers get their butts kicked was excruciating.

Suddenly, Beth felt an explosion behind her, as everything went dark.

Hearing voices, Beth slowly came to her senses. Everything was dark, but she could hear with abnormal clarity.

Jason was here, she was sure of it; and Kim, and Dustin, and ...Trini? Yes, Trini. Jase, Kim and Dustin were having a whispered argument in, what sounded like, a corner of the room. Trini was sitting on Beth's bed, holding her hand, and stroking her hair, like she had when Beth was worrying about Jason in their ranger days. And Beth always had a reason to be worried about Jason.

Listening more closely to the argument in the corner of the room, Beth realized they were arguing about who she was going to live with.

Sighing, she spoke hesitantly. "Tri?"

"Yes Bethie?" the pressure on Beth's hand increased, and the argument in the corner stopped.

"Could you tell my darling brothers that I'm going to live with Kim?"

"What? Why?" asked Dustin hurt.

"Because I'm going to need help you and Jase can't give, and there is no way I'm going to live with Tri and my brother during their newlywed phase," Beth chuckled weakly. "And Tri, I am going to be a bridesmaid, right?"

"Of course Beth!" Everyone was chuckling, Beth had been very concerned about the wedding for ages.

"Tri?"

"Yes?"

"I can't see."

Beth was sure the graduation ceremony was beautiful. She was there, in the audience, cheering for her brother and his friends. She was happy for them, but the long struggle ahead of her put a damper on her mood.

Beth turned on her heel, and made her way to the secret entrance. She planned to slip away quietly, and leave the others to their party.

"You weren't going to leave without saying goodbye, were you?" it was Sensei Watanabe, who was no longer a guinea pig, or so she was told.

"This isn't really goodbye. I'll be around. But today belongs to the heroes. The job was never really mine to begin with."

"What will you do now?" asked Sensei.

"I'll go on, like always. I have a lot of work ahead of me if I ever want to be functional again. I need to get away, start over, give myself an opportunity to heal."

"Well then, let me walk you to your fresh start."

Beth nodded smiling faintly. They stepped through the secret entrance together. Kim was there, waiting. Beth faced the man beside her.

"Tell the other congratulations for me. I'll be in touch.'

"Yes" Beth started walking toward her new beginning. "And Elizabeth," she paused, "Good luck."

Beth and Kim left, and Sensei turned back to his school. Beth wasn't the only one facing a new beginning.