a/n-don't worry the meaningless drabble has a purpose later on.

Disclaimer-i haven't been able to convince them to give me power rangers yet, so as always i don't own them.

Chapter One-The Party

Jason and Kat Scott were the first ones to arrive, along with their daughter Kaylie, and their son Thomas. Kaylie was one month younger than the triplets, which made her almost twelve. Thomas was nine. They had arrived early, because as Jason put it, 'he just had to see his favorite nephew.' Jason's 'favorite' nephew was Jason Oliver, for obvious reasons, like the fact that the young boy had been named after him.

The next people to arrive, after the Scott's, were the Cranston's: Trini, Billy, and Kimmie, who was three months older than the triplets. It was no secret, at least to Ann and David, that their brother Jason had a huge crush on Kimmie.

Shortly after the Cranston's walked in the door, Rocky DeSantos and his wife Haley pulled up in their car, along with their five-year old son, Ernie. Adam and Tanya, who had an eight-year old daughter and an adopted son who was sixteen, followed them in the door. Their daughter's name was Teresa, and their son's name was Ted. When David saw Ted, he smiled to himself, very slightly. It was so obvious that Ann liked Ted, his mother had noticed it too. In fact, it was so obvious, that their father had even noticed it, which was something he was not known for. However obvious it was to her family though, you could tell that Ted didn't know. His parents did though, Kimberly and Tanya had talked about it for quite some time, the last time they had visited.

Finally, after Zack had arrived shortly after, with his three kids in tow, the party started. As usual, Rocky was hungry and Jason and Tommy were talking about the old days, quietly though so the kids wouldn't here.

None of the eleven children knew that their parents had been the power rangers, back when they had been teenagers. Jason, Kimberly, Trini, Billy, and Zack had been the original team, they were joined shortly after by Tommy. Jason, Trini, and Zack had later left, to go to a peace conference. They had been replaced by Adam, Aisha, and Rocky (Aisha wasn't at the party, she had had to go on an important business trip, but her husband Zack had brought the kids to the party.). After Kimberly had left for the Pan Global Games she had been replaced by Kat. When Aisha had moved to Africa, she had sent Tanya back in her place. Later there had been another replacement, for Rocky. His name was Justin Stewart. He hadn't been able to come to the party, because his wife was very pregnant with their first child.

Meanwhile, while the adults were socializing amongst themselves, the children would play together. At least the younger ones would. Ann and Kimmie would sit together and gossip about boys, while David and Ted would play basketball. Sometimes, Kaylie would join the girls, and the triplets would join the older boys. Thomas, Teresa, Ernie, and Zack & Aisha's three kids, Mimi, Andrea, and Eric would play some sort of game together. That is how it always was when that particular group of people got together.

"Hey Kimmie, don't you think the triplet's are so cute?" Kaylie asked.

"Well." Kimmie said looking over at the three boys who were spread around the yard. "I guess."

"Oh come on, tell us." Kaylie said. "Ann doesn't care what you say about her brother's. Right Ann."

"Right. Besides, maybe if you tell me something, I might tell you something." Ann said.

"Oh, alright." Kimmie said, finally giving in. "I think that they are all cute, but it's kinda hard to say who is the cutest, cuz they're identical."

"Well, it depends on how you look at it." Kaylie told her. "Jason is really athletic, Zachary is very serious, and Willie is very smart, and he's kinda funny. Plus, they are all really nice."

"Yeah." Agreed Kimmie. "When you put it like that, I guess I'd have to say that Jason is the cutest. I really like sports, and-."

"You so totally like him!" Kaylie said, cutting Kimmie off.

"I never said that." Kimmie said, but she was blushing.

"Do you?" Ann asked Kimmie curiously. She knew that her brother really liked the girl, but she had never gotten the impression that Kimmie like him back.

Kimmie just sat there for a minute, as if wondering if it was safe to answer, then she nodded her head, very slowly.

"Are you serious?" Kaylie asked.

"Yes." Kimmie said softly.

"No way." Kaylie said. "You know, I always thought that he liked you."

"What?"

"Yeah, I think he likes you." Kaylie said.

"I know he likes you." Ann said.

"He does? Really, you're not joking?"

"Do I look like Willie to you?"

"Well, you guys do kinda look a little bit alike."

"Oh, you know what I meant. But yeah, I am totally serious. Just ask David, or my mother. Heck, you could even ask my dad, and he would tell you that Jason likes you."

"Wow, I must be pretty blind if Uncle Tommy noticed that and I didn't." Kimmie said.

"Well, he does see him like twenty four-seven." Kaylie pointed out. "How often do you see him, like maybe every few weeks at most?"

"No." Ann said. "It must be more than that. Mom and Aunt Trini are like best friends. They see each other way more than that."

"Yeah, but we, unlike them, have to be in school. So they have way more time to socialize than they do."

"I guess. But, don't you guys all go to school together?" Ann asked.

"You're right, we do." Kaylie said. "I forgot about that. Wow, I'm an idiot. Jason is in my homeroom."

"You and Jason-." Ann started, but she got cut off by Willie who had chosen that moment to walk over and over hear part of their conversation.

"Woah. I think I just walked in on the wrong conversation." Willie said. "But while I'm here, feel free to continue your sentence Ann. What were you about to say about our beloved brother and Kaylie?"

"I was about to say that they are in the same homeroom." Ann said, glaring at one of her younger brother's for interrupting her.

"Jeez, what's that look for? What'd I do this time?"

"Do you really want to know?" Kaylie asked him sweetly.

"Nope, not really." Willie said. "Well, I will leave you now, feel free to continue your conversation about how hot you think I am."

"I do not think that you are hot." Ann said to her brother.

"Well, I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to them." He said, pointing at Kimmie and Kaylie, then walking away muttering something about idiotic girls under his breathe.

Ann just rolled her eyes at his back. "He can be so immature."

"Yeah, but he's really smart too." Kaylie said.

"Kaylie Scott, do you like Willie Oliver?" Kimmie asked suddenly.

"I don't know. Do you, Kimmie Cranston, like Jason Oliver?"

"I already told you that." Kimmie said, blushing once more. At that same moment, Jason looked over at them, hearing his name, which caused Kimmie to blush even more. But Jason didn't notice anything. Instead he turned back to the game he was playing with Ted and David, listening to something his older brother was saying.

"Thank God he didn't hear all of what you said." Kimmie said. "I would have died."

"Why were you going to die?" A voice asked behind the girls. It was Trini, Kimmie's mother.

"Oh, hi mom." Kimmie said, starting to blush again.

"Oh don't worry Aunt Trini, Kimmie wasn't really going to die. She was just saying that she would have been really embarrassed if Jason had heard me say that Kimmie likes him."

"God! Kaylie, can you talk any louder? He'll hear you."

"Oh Kimmie." Trini sighed. "Who cares if he hears you? According to Kim, he likes you."

"That's what I told her." Ann said.

"Exactly. Besides, it's better that you let him know. Your father and I really liked each other a lot, back in high school. But neither one of us did anything about it. We never even told the other person. If we had, we probably would have ended up married long before we actually were."

"Yeah." Agreed Ann. "And then you wouldn't have had to have the wedding in our backyard."

"You had the wedding in the back yard?" Kaylie asked. "Why?"

Trini smiled. "We had been engaged for quite some time, and we were waiting for…for, well for just the right…moment to get married. We decided to get married about three days before we actually did, and there was nowhere else big enough to hold all the people we were planning to inviting at such short notice. So I volunteered Tommy and Kimberly's backyard for the ceremony and reception. Kim didn't mind when I asked her, but when she told Tommy, he nearly fainted. It was actually pretty funny."

"How big was your wedding that you couldn't find somewhere on such short notice?" Kimmie asked curiously. She had heard the story of why they had had the wedding in their friend's back yard, but she had never thought to ask about who had been there.

"Well, let's see. My family, and your father's family, then a bunch of our friends, and people who were really important to us. Not to mention someone who was very important to all of us, who we weren't expecting to be there. He showed up at just the right moment. I was about to have nervous breakdown."

"Grandpa Zordon?" Ann asked curiously. "I remember when he came. We were about to leave, and you were really worried about just about everything. Then Uncle Jason pulled mom out of the room, and when she came back she was really excited. And Aunt Kat and Aunt Aisha were really excited too when you all saw who it was. He said something to me too. I don't remember what it was though."

"You were there?" Kaylie asked. "Why?"

"I, was the flower girl." Ann told the younger girl. "I had the prettiest dress." She said reminiscently.

"Can we see a picture of it?" Kimmie asked. "I never saw any."

"Sure. But I can do better that that. I have the dress in my room. Wanna go see it?"

"Yeah." Kaylie said.

"Well, you girls have fun." Trini told them. "I am gonna go rejoin the adults now. I just wanted to see how you guys were doing."

"See you later Aunt Trini." Ann called, as they walked in the opposite directions. Trini heading back to the adults and Ann leading the two younger girls into the house to show them the dress she had worn at the wedding over thirteen years ago.

As they walked pass the basketball hoop, they noticed that Ted, David, and Jason weren't there anymore.

"Hmm. I wonder where the boys went." Ann said. "But come one, we can just go up to my room and I'll show you the dress."

As the girls neared Ann's room after they had gone upstairs, they heard voices coming from one of the rooms somewhere up there. It seemed like the boys had gone up to David's room, which was right across the hall from Ann's.

Ann suddenly stopped and turned around, with her finger to her lips, she pointed to David's door, which was partially open. The two younger girls nodded, smiling. They were just dying to know what the guys had come up here for. Slowly, the three girls crept up to the door and leaned in to hear what the guys were saying.

"-know you like her. It's kind of obvious. And she definitely likes you too. You should hear her talking about you all the time." David was saying.

"Really?" Another voice asked curiously. It was Ted.

"It's a bit annoying actually." Jason said.

Ann's eyes got wide. She couldn't believe her brother's. They were talking about her. All of a sudden, she heard them get up, they were saying something about going back downstairs.

"-And Ted can talk to Ann." Jason finished.

"And you can talk to Kimmie." His brother told him. When she heard that, Kimmie's eyes went wide. Now she knew Ann had been telling the truth.

"Hurry." Whispered Ann. Pointing to her open door right across the hall. Kaylie and Kimmie nodded. They didn't want to know what the boys would say if they caught them listening. The girls rushed across the hall, and slammed the door shut just as David opened his door. He stopped dead.

"Do you think they heard us?" He asked.

"Well, that depends." Jason said.

"On what?" Ted asked.

"On who they are. If it was Ann, then they definitely heard what we were saying. You know how sneaky she is." Jason answered.

"Yeah." Agreed David. Ted stayed silent.

"I am not sneaky." Ann whispered to her two 'cousins' behind her closed bedroom door. "Am I?"

"No." Kaylie said, not whispering.

"Shh." Ann and Kimmie both said together. They heard the boys stop talking in the hallway.

"Hurry." Kimmie said. "Get the dress."

Ann ran over to her closet and went straight to the back where the old dress was hanging, and got it down. She slipped the plastic covering off just as there was a knock at her door.

"Come in." Ann called trying to be calm.

David opened the door, Ted and Jason close behind him.

"Uh, hi." David said. "So have you guys been here long?"

The girls could tell he was trying to stay cool. He knew that they had heard them talking.

"Yeah." Ann said just as cool. "The girls just wanted to see my old dress, they never saw any pictures of it."

"You wore that?" Ted asked. "To what? Isn't it a bit small for you?"

"I wore it when I was the flower girl for Kimmie's parent's wedding. Which was over thirteen years ago."

"Hey Ann." David said looking closer at the dress. "What is that in that pocket?"

"I don't know." Ann reached into the pocket and pulled out something that looked kind of like a watch. "There are some buttons on it. I wonder what they do."

So Ann ran her finger down all six of the buttons, pushing them at the same time. Then she looked back up at the other people standing in her room to ask them what they thought it was. Except that they weren't in her room any more. She didn't know where they were. But Ann was prepared to bet that it wasn't anywhere in her house.

The device that Ann was still holding in her hand was responsible for what had happened. The thing in her hand that looked so much like a watch was in fact, a communicator, from back when her parents had been power rangers. But she didn't know that. She also didn't know where they were, which happened to be the old command center.

a/n-see i told you it had a purpose.