Comfortably Numb

By: Luna Ace

Summery: Years after the infamous Dear John Letter Kimberly Ann Hart calls Thomas Oliver and asks him to met in Angel Grove's Park. Can a relationship ten years old be salvage?

She was crying. The other Rangers were shocked. Mesogog was... human? If only they knew that... they wouldn't have gone rushing into battle... they would have come up with a plan. A plan to have destroy Mesogog and keep this man safe. It look like they were fighting a loosing battle... Rocky, Tommy and now him. How many more people did they have a chance to loose.

At least they haven't lost Rocky, not yet at least.

Trini was the first one to speak. She had a sensible head above everyone else-- who merely forgotten that the Blue Ranger was unmasked. That the Blue Ranger was indeed, Hayley Zitkor; and could be hunted down and asked questions of the Power Rangers. She didn't want that to happen. And, she knew that the other Rangers didn't want to see it happen. It was a careless mistake to see happen.

"We got to get out of here," Trini said, finally voicing her thoughts.

There was silence for a few minutes, the Red Ranger looked around. He was still shell shocked. He nodded. He signaled the others to transport back to the Command Center. Both Katherine and Trini disengaged their uniforms and walked over to Hayley. The two woman exchanged glances. They knew this wasn't going to be easy.

"Hayley..." Kathrine started.

The red-head looked up and disengaged her uniform. Then she threw the morpher and coin at Katherine. She felt sick. She didn't know this was going to happen. She didn't know what to do now. The Australian woman pocketed the items and watched the red-head cry.

"Hayley..." Trini said.

But, the redhead looked at the Asian woman vilely.

"You know what you just did! You know what just happened?! The Power Rangers killed someone! We killed someone! We are no better than those monsters Conner, Ethan, and Kira fight on a daily basis! Those monsters don't even kill people. They just make minor casualties. And what do we do?! We take it one step further! I wish I never met you guys! Most of all I wish Tommy never made me the Dino Thunder technical advisor!" she screamed at them, crystal tears falling from her eyes as she tighten her grip on the man who was now presumed dead.

The two woman didn't say anything. They couldn't changed anything, and they now had blood on their hands. Now, that was different. In all their years as Power Rangers (Trini was the original yellow Ranger for two and a half years; Kathrine was a pink Ranger for one and a half) they never killed a mortal. It just made them feel guilty. They were the good guys. They were the Power Rangers. Even their own kids looked up at them.

Kimberly finally had noticed Tommy's body laying a feet from Aisha, Adam and herself. Crystal tears weld in her chocolate brown eyes. She couldn't bear to look at him. She knew the truth which tugged at her heart. She was responsible for unexplainable things that had happened in the past ten years. She was at least glad she had a career to fall back on. She was a professional gymnastics teacher. Yet, sometimes she ended up missing to the outside world. She'd find herself at one of the Rangers house. She wondered what happened, but she knew what had happened.

But, she couldn't be responsible for her actions, could she? Then those dreams-- the ones with the Ninjetti animals spirits. They'd always happened when some other force had taken over her body and soul. She wondered how she'd got free from this spell. Was it because she was trying to protect them? Or was it because the other force finally had done what it set out to do?

Tommy...

If only she had warned him. If only he'd answered her pleas. Did he hate her for the letter she didn't really intended to write? Did he understand? She even asked the other Rangers to call out to him, but nothing worked. Yet, deep inside she still felt an evil force itching it's way to come out and play. She knew she had to fight it. She didn't want Tommy to die. It was her against the world. If only Zedd were standing In front of her now she would crush him like a bug. Yet, he wasn't so she picked up a semi- huge rock and threw it at the wall.

The other Ninjetti Rangers looked at her. They knew she wasn't strong enough to lift that rock, but Billy smiled sadly and figured that Kim was mad at something-- and lifted the rock with adrenaline power and threw it. He and Adam were talking about the Aquirian marks on the wall (quietly). He sighed. This wasn't how he expected this day to turn out.

Aisha, on the other hand; was intently watching Kimberly. Thoughts wandered around in her mind. She knew there was no way Kimberly could survive this blow... if Tommy died. She knew the real reason Kim never went to talk to the man she once loved... and still did. Even Katherine and Trini knew. If Kimberly had gone out to seek Tommy then he would have ended up in the same position's as now. She was only glad that it didn't happened until now.

But, one thought had come across her mind: How did she manage to find Tommy in Reefside, California?

It didn't make any sense.

"Kimberly?" the yellow Ranger asked, bring Kimberly out of her thoughts.

"Hm?" the brunette asked looking at her long time friend.

"How did you find out where Tommy was? I mean you guys never spoke to each other in ten years. Let alone seen each other."

The brunette closed her eyes, and sighed. She thought about it. When had she found out Tommy Oliver's number? When had she decided to stalk him. Well, she didn't mean it like that. But, she was confused of the thought. She smiled bitterly at Aisha before she answered the question.

"I don't really remember. One minute I was my normal self the next..."

All of the sudden her eyes seemed distant. Both Adam and Billy looked at her, and watched her as she was thrown back into a memory.

She was walking down the street of Reefside. Her hair was up in a bun. Yet, her hair color wasn't brunette at all. It was a silky raven color. She had entered a Cafe-- which she hadn't noticed the name of it (Hayley's Cyber cafe). The place had seemed closed-- but there was a woman with red hair inside, sitting on a stool, her face and her hands; crying.

"Excuse me," she asked the red head.

The red head looked up and fought back the tears, but it was impossible. She looked at the raven haired woman sadly, and smiled.

"We're closed-- wait how did you get in he-"

The raven-haired girl laughed, a cold hearted laughed. She could used the powers that she was given by Lord Zedd. She had transported inside, after she found out the door was locked.

"Simple," the raven haired woman said looking at her nails. "What's wrong your boyfriend broke up with you or something?"

The red head rolled her eyes. "No! My best friend and boyfriend are missing. They were on this Paleontology quest--" she didn't tell her that? Did she? But, looking in her brunette eyes she felt like she could tell her anything. It was like the red head was under a spell... her spell.

"Oh?" the raven haired woman asked. "What are their names?"

The red head gulped and looked away. She didn't want to tell this stranger about her now dead lover and her best friend. But, before she could do anything the words slipped out of her mouth...

"Anton Mercer and Tommy Oliver."

The raven haired woman did a double take. So, her plans was working after all. She had found him. And, that Anton Mercer fellow had become a rare jewel... a rare jewel indeed...

Jason slammed his fist down as Trini told him what they've done. Katherine, Hayley and the man were now safe inside the Command Center. Trini sighed. She couldn't believe what they've done. It was hard knowing that you've killed someone. It was even more hard knowing you could have prevented it. They were Rangers-- they were never suppose to inflict damage on the innocent.

But, how could they've have known. The other Ex-Rangers starred at the couple feeling guilty themselves. This was all apart of life. That's what they've thought. This was all a dream. One very bad dream. They'll wake up soon. But, each of the other Rangers knew it wasn't a dream. It was reality.

A cold, harsh reality.

Rocky was poisoned, they killed a man, and who knew where the others were. And Tommy, Jason's best friend was slowly dying. Maybe there was a way to fix this. Jason didn't care anymore. They had to fix this-- they had to save Rocky and Tommy, and the man inside the infirmary they knew nothing about.

The only question was: how?

A/N: Feh. Depressing, no? I feel sad now. I killed someone-- even though I know I haven't officially killed off Rocky nor Tommy yet. Sorry 'bout that. I had this interesting insult match in my head (for another fic) which kind of left me in a bad mood. Heh, and, it left me here. Hope you enjoyed this chapter! I decided too update this story early since I will be gone for the weekend! Enjoy! R+R!