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Chapter Six-A Strange Discovery
It was the next day, and the first official day of summer vacation. School had gotten out the Friday before, and the triplet's party had been on Sunday. While the rest of her family took advantage of being able to sleep, Ann got up early to take a run through the woods that surrounded her house.
As she ran through the woods, Ann thought about everything that had happened to her. Twenty-four hours ago, she had been an ordinary teenager. Now, she had the biggest secret in the world. It had all happened so fast. One moment, she had been worrying that her brother would get mad at her for eavesdropping, and trying to hide the fact that she had been doing that. The next moment, she found herself in a strange building, where she had met Zordon again, and a strange robot, and where she was suddenly told that she was a new power ranger.
Then, she was on a distant planet, receiving her powers. There, she found out that she would lead the new team of power rangers. Who, hadn't even been seen since she was a very small girl. Then, when she went home, she had been yelled at by her mother. Which had been pretty stupid in Ann's opinion. They had been gone for half of an hour, and her mother was freaking out. IT had been pretty weird when, about two hours later, they got back from their first mission, and her mother had barely said a word. Except that time, she had had the foresight to tell her mother that they were going upstairs. But that still didn't explain both of her parents, and her Uncle Jason's action's when they got back. They just acted like it was perfectly normal for the six kids to have randomly gone upstairs, and then come running back as if the whole house was on fire.
Then, to top it all off their battle had been televised, live! That was certainly not normal. But what could she expect. The power rangers were big in Reefside, and they hadn't been seen in thirteen years, it was big news that they were back. Ann knew that she had certainly gotten Willie suspicious when she ran into David's room, after he had mentioned the TV incident. The Jason had come in after talking to Willie. And the strangest part of all of that was that Ann had been yelling, a lot, and her mother hadn't said a word to her about it. And if there was on thing Ann Oliver knew about her mother, it was that she hated yelling, with a passion.
Ann stopped running for a moment, to catch her breath. She wiped her sweaty face on her pink tank, and when she looked up, she found herself surrounded by putties.
"Great. Just great." Ann muttered to herself. She realized that she had taken her morpher off the night before, and she had forgotten to put it back on that morning. But that didn't mean that she was totally defenseless. Her father had trained her and her brother's in martial art, not to mention, her mother's gymnastics training. And also the fact, that Ann was the captain of her high school soccer team. She was in great shape, and she was dangerous.
Ann leapt into battle with the putties around her. There were only about twenty of them right now, but who knew when more would come. Easily, Ann defeated them, then took off running, in case more decided to show up. Without warning, tripped, and fell right nest to a large boulder covered with moss.
Ann had never seen this before. Looking around her, Ann discovered that she had run practically into her own backyard. She could just see the top of her house through the trees. If she was so close to her house, then why hadn't she ever seen this before? It looked as if it had been there for years.
Ann wiped away some of the moss covering the rock, to find the skeleton of a dinosaur on the rock. Tracing it with her finger, Ann reached the mouth. She pulled lightly on the jaw, and a door opened. Ann dropped her jaw. What was in there? Then Ann did the most sensible thing she could think of, she walked into it.
She found herself in a strange underground room. It was full of dust, and things that looked like computers, with sheets over them. This room looked so familiar to her. But she just couldn't figure out why. She felt like she had been there before.
Walking over to one of the computers, Ann pulled the sheet off, and pressed a few buttons. Suddenly, the computer turned on. A video turned on automatically when the computer started. It showed an image of her father, though by the looks of it, much, much younger. Like fifteen years younger.
'Hello, my name is Thomas Oliver.' The image of the young Tommy Oliver said.
'If you are listening to this, then the monsters have returned to Earth, and there is no one there to help you. I should start at the beginning. When I was fifteen, I became a power ranger.'
"You what?" Ann practically shouted at the recording.
'I joined my friends Jason, Zack, Billy, Trini, and Kimberly, on their team after they broke the spell that made me the evil green ranger.'
"Evil? You?" Ann said.
'There meantor was an old man, Zordon of Eltar. They welcomed me to their team, the first power ranger team on earth. We lived in Angel Grove California, which we were constantly protecting from Rita Repulsa, and Lord Zedd, the evil emperor.'
"Evil emperor? I bet those sorts of things run in the family." Ann said knowingly.
The video continued, telling about the various teams that there had been of power rangers. Ann recognized everyone from the first few teams. The last team, was the dino thunder team, which consisted of Conner, Kira, Ethan, Trent, and surprisingly, her dad.
"Jeez dad. Aren't you a little old for this now?" Ann asked the video sarcastically.
When the video ended, Ann looked around the room she was in. It looked so very familiar, but why? Noticing a set of stairs, Ann decided to see where they led. She walked up the stairs, and opened the door at the top. Her eyes went wide with shock when she saw what the door opened up on. Sitting at a table, just beyond the door, was her older brother, eating breakfast, in their kitchen.
"Oh, my gosh!" Ann exclaimed softly. David jumped.
"Woah, where did you come from?"
"The basement apparently."
"We don't have a basement." David said looking confused.
"Oh yes we do." Ann answered. "Dad just never took the time to tell us about it, because there is a secret command center down there!"
"What!?" David shouted. "Show me now."
"Wait, is anyone else up?"
"Well, it's hard to sleep with David making such a racket." Jason said, yawning, walking into the kitchen. "Why are you yelling by the way?"
"Come see." Ann said leading her brothers down the stairs. "And shut the door behind you."
The two boy's were speechless when Ann lead them into the secret underground room. David found his voice first.
"It all looks so familiar." He said.
"That is exactly what I thought." Ann said. "I just couldn't figure out why. Oh, hey, that reminds me. Come check out this video."
The two boys were speechless once more after watching the video. Practically every singe one of their parent's friends had, at one time or another, been a power ranger.
"That is so weird." David commented. "And disturbing."
"I think I just figured something out." Jason said suddenly. "Both of you definitely recognize this place, right?"
The twins nodded.
"Well I don't. But dad stopped being a power ranger before I was born, and this had been their command center. What if dad brought the two of you down here, he knew you wouldn't remember it, you were only two. And he couldn't leave you all alone upstairs."
"What about mom? Couldn't she have watched us?" Ann said. Jason shrugged, it was just a theory.
"No." David said suddenly. His siblings stared at him.
"Yesterday, I was looking at the picture albums before the party. There wasn't a single picture of mom in there before the pictures of Uncle Billy and Aunt Trini's wedding. Which took place just a few days after the last time a monster attacked anywhere in the world. Some thing happened to mom, and she wasn't there when we were little. But she came back around the same time as the monster attack."
"But where was she?" Jason asked.
"I have no idea." David admitted.
"I do." Ann said, suddenly remembering something from when she had been just a little girl, living with her brother, and her father.
Flashback
"Hey guy's, tell you what. How about we all go downstairs, so daddy can finish some work, then we can all go visit mommy."
"Daddy, can we bring mommy some flowers?" Asked Ann.
"Of course we can. We'll get them before we go see her."
"Yay! We're gonna go see mommy, and we're gonna bring her flowers!"
"Tell you what guys. How about we just go see mommy now, and daddy will finish his work later?"
"Ok!" the twin's replied in unison.
Later
As Tommy and the twin's walked into Kimberly's hospital room, they saw that someone else was already there.
"Uncle Jase! Uncle Jase!"
"Hey Ann, hey David! What's up guy's?"
"We brought flower's for mommy!" cried Ann.
"You did! That's great, bet she'll love them. How about you put them right here next to her bed."
"Ok."
"Hi Tommy."
"Hey Jason. So what's up with you?"
"Nothing really. I just decided to stop by and visit Kim, then I was gonna stop bye and visit you and the twin's"
"Well, you're welcome to come over tonight for dinner if you like."
"Sounds great, well I should be going. I guess I'll see you later then."
"Yeah, around six o'clock."
"Cool, see you then."
"Right, bye."
"Bye guy's I gotta go now, but I'll see you later."
"Bye Uncle Jase!"
"bye-bye."
End Flashback
"How do you remember that?" David asked his twin incredulously.
"I didn't before." Ann said. "But now I do. That day we went to visit her, she was in a coma in the hospital. But she woke up that day. And dad was so happy. But Uncle Jason never came over for dinner that night."
Ann frowned. "He just never showed up. But the next night, dad invited him over again, and he showed up with Kat. They surprised them so much when mom was there. No one knew that she was awake again and that she was home. We visited all of their friends in Angel Grove the next day."
"How do you remember that?" David repeated.
"Then after we got home, we came down here, but I think you and me both fell asleep. When we woke up, we were in that round room, with all of the mist on the floor. It was me and you and mom. Some woman came in later with dad, but he wouldn't look at us. They took mom with them. Later, two people in white came and brought is home. Then they left, but the people we had gone to see in Angel Grove were there. They went somewhere though, and we stayed with Haley. Everyone came back a little while later, and they had mom with them. I remember wondering how she could be sleeping, but now I think she was unconscious. Dad and everyone else came back then, and Uncle Jason was talking to dad about mom, and they everyone stood around her in this circle.
"Those two people in white, brought us into the middle of the circle, and all I remember is wishing that mom wold wake up so that I could tell her how much I loved her. And there was this huge flash of light, and the two people in white were gone, but mom was sitting up, awake. Three days later, Uncle Billy and Aunt Trini got married."
"I will only say this one more time." David said. "How do you remember that?"
Ann glared at her brother. "I don't know how I remember all of that, but I do know that it's true. I don't know how though."
"Seriously though." Jason said. "I didn't know anyone could have that good of a memory."
Ann glanced at her watch then. "It's almost ten. I bet mom and dad are up by now. We should go put the way I got in, just in case anyone is in the kitchen. I get the impression we aren't supposed to be down here."
Her brother's nodded, before following her out through the door that opened in the wall.
"This has been here this whole time?" Jason asked incredulously, after seeing where the doorway led. "This is in our own backyard. Not to mention the fact that it is our basement."
"Hurry up you two." Ann called from the middle of their backyard. David and Jason hadn't moved since they'd come out into the woods. But now, they hurried to catch up with their sister.