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Chapter Ten-Kim and Kimberly

After talking with her mother, Ann ran back into the living room. She was worried about what had made the crashing noise. And she hoped that nothing had happened to Kim.

"Who was at the door?" Jason asked his sister as she walked into the room.

"Our grandmother."

"Grandma? Is she still here."

"No, mom made her leave-."

"Why? I love Mrs. Oliver." Kim interrupted.

"It wasn't Dad's mom. It was your mom." Ann said looking at Kim.

"My mom?"

"Her mom?"

"Her mom." Ann confirmed. "Mom told me this really weird story about why she made her leave. I don't think any of it happened to you yet, though."

"What did she-I, tell you?" Kim asked.

"Well, she said that she fell off of the balance beam one day. She didn't have a spotter, because no one else was there, and dad was coming to meet her, and she thought she would be fine without him for a little bit. But anyway, she fell and she was taken to the hospital. Dad, and her mom, met her there. The doctor's told her that she was pregnant, and her mom got mad. She didn't like dad, and they were only engaged at the time anyway. So they got in this big fight. Basically, it was either leave dad and her mother would love her forever, or stay with dad and her mother would pretend that she had never existed. Mom chose dad, and her mom left. Apparently though, she called mom the night of Billy and Trini's wedding, and mom told her to leave her alone and never try to contact her again. Mom hasn't seen her in years, and she doesn't want to see her ever again." Ann summarized. "Somehow though, I think there is more to the story."

"That's all very interesting." Kim said. "And some of it actually has happened to me already though. I was at the studio, practicing. I didn't have a spotter, and Tommy was supposed to be there any second, so I started without him. I slipped and fell. I don't know what happened after that though, because I landed here."

"Wait a second." Jason said. "If that stuff already happened to you, then that means that you are pregnant with Ann and David right now."

Kim's eyes went wide. "Pregnant? Me? Now?"

Ann nodded her head in agreement. "It makes sense. If that stuff did just happen to you, then you must be pregnant."

Just then, something happened that made everyone speechless. Kimberly walked into the room.

"Hey guys. Your dad had to go in for a meeting today, so I was wondering if you wanted to do something together?"

"Um." Was all that Ann and Jason could say. Their mother hadn't noticed Kim yet, and Kim wasn't moving. Then, their mother looked up.

"Oh." Kimberly said, smiling. "I've been wondering when you would show up."

"You've been what?" Ann said.

"I guess I should explain this. I knew that this would happen one day." Kimberly said, moving to sit down on one of the chairs in the living room.

"I should start by apologizing to you Ann. I wasn't completely honest with my explanation about my mother before. You see, it all started the day I was practicing on the balance beam.

"As I said before, I was waiting for your father to show up. He was late, as usual. So, thinking that nothing could wrong if I started without him, I started practicing on the balance beam. I should have waited, I should have used a spotter. I didn't once before, and I ended up in the hospital with a broken ankle. So, as I was practicing, I slipped and fell. But the funny thing was, I didn't land on the mats beneath me. I landed in the middle of a forest.

"The next thing I knew, a teenage girl was walking up to me asking me if I was alright. She kind of startled me, because she called me 'mom'. At the time I obviously didn't have any kids. She took me home with her, and we started talking about our ranger careers. It led to a discussion about dark dimension's, which we never finished, because I started telling her about what I had been doing before I ended up in her backyard. I was a little startled when I found out it wasn't 2004 anymore. Then, her brother walked in, and we sort of figured out that I was their mother. Then the girl left, because the doorbell rang. When she came back, she said that it had been my mother at the door. A few minutes after that, my future self walked in, and started explaining everything I just told you."

Everyone just stared at Kimberly. They were speechless. But finally, Kim found her voice again.

"You are the future me?"

"Right." Kimberly said, nodding.

"Then I guess I do end up going back, right."

"You do." Kimberly answered carefully.

"Mom, what aren't you saying?" Ann asked. "What have you been hiding from us?"

Kimberly looked uncomfortable. "You won't be going back for a while Kim. You see, when you fell, you landed on your head. You became unconscious and were transported here, sort of in a spirit form, but solid. Your body is still in 2004, but it's in a coma. And it will be for more than three years. As long as you are here, you will be in a coma in 2004. And that will last for more than three years."

"Three years?" Kim asked weakly. "I am going to lose three years of my life, because I made the stupid mistake of not waiting for Tommy?"

"Not really." Kimberly said. "You will technically lose three years of your life then, but you will be living them now. If that makes sense."

"I guess it does. But we were talking, and we sort of figured out that I'm pregnant right now with the twins." Kim said.

"Oh, you are. But nobody finds out about that for another three months. The doctors didn't run any tests for that, and it didn't show up in any of the results that they got. It sort of just appeared when I started getting bigger. That is when my mother left."

"Why would she do that?" Kim asked sadly. "She loves me."

"She was ashamed." Kimberly told her younger self. "She never liked Tommy. And the two of us weren't married yet, and we were going to have a baby. When I woke up and found out, I was furious that she would do that to me. Plus, while you are here, she will come back again. She had her reasons for coming back, and I saw them when I was here. Seeing what she was doing made me very mad, and I showed it when she tried to get back on my good side the first time. She figured that I wouldn't know anything about it, but I knew from what I saw here, and from what Tommy told me after I woke up."

"It must have been terrible for you." Ann said suddenly. "After you went back, you basically knew everything that would happen to you for the next few years."

"I didn't know everything." Kimberly said. "I knew that I would have the triplet's and that they would all be boys. And I knew what would happen to me when I showed up in the future. I made sure not to find out about anything other than what was really obviously going to happen to me, like the triplet's. I didn't want what I would find out to affect the way I would act when I went back."

"You know what?" Jason said suddenly. "That sucks."

"I know." His mother agreed.

"Wait a minute." Ann said. "Going back to what you were saying earlier, does this mean that you know I'm a power ranger?"

Kimberly nodded. "I knew all along. Something else happened when I eventually went back that made me realize it, and I played figuring it out in front of your father and Jason."

"How did you do that?" Jason asked.

"Remember how I didn't really get mad at you the first time you disappeared at the party? Well, when your father asked why not, I told him that you were all wearing communicators on your wrists. It was a good excuse, because we all knew what they were, and that they hadn't been there the last time we had seen you. I knew all along that you would become a power ranger, Ann. I just didn't know who would be on the team with you. And, I must say, I was pretty surprised at who it was."

"I agree." Kim said speaking up. "Whoever chose your team, chose pretty strangely. The three sixteen-year olds, I could understand, but the twelve-year olds?"

"I know I'm really not supposed to know this, but who did choose your team?" Kimberly asked curiously.

"Grandpa Zordon." Ann said simply.

"I should have known." Kimberly said, as Kim gasped.

"Zordon? As in the Zordon? I thought that he was dead."

"Yes, the Zordon." Kimberly said. "I know that this is a pretty big deal and all, but you have to know that you cannot tell a single person when you go back. They will all find out soon enough."

"OK. But can I see him."

"Of course you can. You'll be living in the command center while you're here."

"The command center was rebuilt too?" Kim asked with wide eyes.

"Yes, he'll tell you all about it later. I think he said he rebuilt it with Alpha 15."

"Wow, fifteen already." Kim commented. "So, can I go see him now?"

"Yes." Kimberly said. "He has been expecting you."

Ann and Jason stood up. "We'll take you there."

Kim and Kimberly both stood up. Kim went to stand next to her future children.

"I'll be seeing you." Kimberly said. "And you two, be sure to hurry back."

"We will mom." The two siblings assured her.