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Chapter Nineteen-Ninjetti Problems

At Conner and Kira's house they found much the same as before, except now there was no one there. After they had gone through the whole first floor, Ann heard something upstairs. It sounded like a crying baby.

"Oh no, Alex." And she ran up the stairs, closely followed by everyone else. "Oh man, which room is his?"

"Try that one." David said pointing at a closed door. "The crying seems to be coming from there."

Ann cautiously opened the door to find the nursery. Alex was lying in his crib, wailing. Ann quickly de-morphed, and picked him up.

"Shh, it's ok Alex. You'll be fine." To everyone else she said, "What do we do? Someone came and took Conner and Kira too, and we can't just leave him here by himself."

"Let's take him to mom." David suggested. "She's had five kids, she'll know what to do."

"Good idea." Kaylie said. "But is it alright if I go home instead? I want to check on my dad and brother."

"That's fine." Ann said. "David, Kimmie, grab some of Alex's clothes and put them in his diaper bag over there. And make sure he has plenty of food and diapers in there. I have a feeling he'll be with us for a while. Ted and Jason go search the rest of the upstairs, just in case. I think I saw some keys downstairs. I'll go find out if they are for the car."

Everyone nodded in acknowledgement to their assignments and Kaylie teleported back to her home, still morphed. David and Kimmie started grabbing things from around the room, while Ted and Jason were opening doors at random, and while Ann went back downstairs to get the keys she had seen before.

"I hope these are your daddy's car keys." Ann said to the baby. She went out to the car and found that the keys in her hand unlocked it. There was a car seat in the back, and she quickly put Alex in there and buckled him. "I'll be right back Alex. I'll get you a snack."

Ann hurried back into the house and found David and Kimmie coming down with a loaded diaper bag.

"Take that out to the car, and get ready to leave." Ann said quickly. "And make sure you de-morph before you go out there. I'll go get the other two."

Ann called up the stairs. "Ted, Jason! Get down here. We're leaving now!"

"Fine, we're coming." Came the reply. The two boys came down the stairs.

"You don't need to stay morphed now. And it would be better if the neighbor's didn't see the power rangers walking out of the house too."

"Yeah, right." Jason said.

"We didn't find anything." Ted told her after they had powered down. "And it didn't look like anything had been disturbed either. My guess is that whoever took them either didn't want Alex or just didn't know he exists."

Jason nodded his agreement.

"That makes sense." Ann said. "You can tell everyone else when we get in the car. We should get away from here as soon as possible."

It took Ann about twenty minutes to get to her house from Conner and Kira's. When she pulled up, her dad was out front, and she could tell he was surprised to see her get out of Conner's car.

"Ann, what are you doing driving Conner's car?"

"Look dad, we can't explain out here. And we need to tell mom too."

Ann quickly got Alex out of his seat and motioned for David to get his diaper bag.

"What the-." Tommy started to say.

"Is mom here?" Ann said cutting her dad off.

He nodded. "She's in the kitchen getting dinner started."

Ann led the way into her house.

"Mom?" She called.

"What is it honey?" Kim said coming out of the kitchen. She stopped dead when she saw Alex. "Is that-?"

"Alex McKnight." David finished. "Here's the deal mom, and dad you should probably hear this too. We, uh, went, to Jason and Kat's house, and we found their door blown in. Something attacked them and took Aunt Kat. Uncle Jason managed to hide Thomas, and Kaylie was with us at the time. Kaylie went back there to make sure they're ok now. But then we got a call to go to Conner and Kira's house, and it was basically the same thing, except you could tell the fight at Jason and Kat's house was much worse. But anyway, we don't know what happened to them, and we had to take Alex with us. Oh, and we sorta borrowed Conner's car. Anyway, we need you mom, because you raised five kids, so we were kinda hoping you knew what to do?"

"Of course I'll help David. But did you tell anyone what you found?"

"We didn't have the chance." Ted said. "We got out of there before anything came back."

"That was wise." Tommy said. "But you need to tell someone."

Ann and David got the hint. With a small nod from Ann, David went into the living room to call Zordon and Alpha.

"I'll call everyone else." Tommy said. He went over and opened a door in the wall and went into the lair in the basement.

"Here, give me Alex." Kim said walking over to her daughter. Ann gladly put the baby into her mother's arms. "I bet you're hungry, aren't you Alex?"

The baby smiled sweetly at Kim. He liked her smiling face.

"Give me the diaper bag." Kim commanded.

A few minutes later, Tommy came running up the stairs.

"We have a few problems." He said. "I just called the first few teams, and dino thunder, because those are the only teams who really know about the problem."

"How do you know?" Ann asked curiously.

"I was part of it last time."

"Last time?"

"Never mind that for now." Kim said. "What is it Tommy?"

"I couldn't get a hold of Rocky, Billy, Aisha, Adam, Trent, or Ethan. Haley said that she just got home and Rocky wasn't there. She said something about visiting her uncle in Angel Grove or something. Trini says she's at work and hasn't talked to Billy since this morning. Zack said something attacked them and took Aisha. Tanya just got home from work and can't find Adam. And Trent and Ethan aren't answering any of my calls."

"What's the connection besides the fact that they are all former power rangers?" Kimmie asked.

"I have no clue." Tommy admitted.

"But I do." Kim said suddenly. "Think about it Tommy. They are all former Ninjetti rangers. Except you can't be a former Ninjetti ranger, because you keep those powers forever. The seven former rangers that are missing are the ones with the active powers."

"But what about the zeo rangers? According to Uncle Jason, Aunt Kat morphed." Ted said.

"I don't know what that's about." Tommy said. "But your explanation makes sense Kim, except for that part. Do you have any ideas what that could be about?"

Kim nodded. "The problem is the same as last time. Who saved us last time?"

Realization dawned on Tommy's face. "The Ninjetti spirits."

"She's back, and this time she made the first move. She took away the only thing that helped us last time."

"Then why hasn't she targeted us or them yet?" Tommy questioned gesturing towards the five people standing in front of them. "And what about all of those kids? Don't they technically possess the spirits as well?"

"She can't possibly know about all of them. She disappeared for fourteen years. In that time, she probably had no way of monitoring what was happening on earth. The only two who were even alive last time were Ann and David. Well technically Ted was too, but that was before he was adopted."

"Hey." Ted said suddenly. "Uncle Jason said something about my dad being a Ninjetti, was he by any chance the frog?"

Tommy and Kim nodded. "Why?"

"When we got our powers, Dulcea said 'that the spirit of the frog claimed me as it's own' or something like that."

"I remember that." David said. "None of us knew what she was talking about."

"I don't think I'll ever understand her." Tommy said. "And I never liked her much."

"That's only because she tripped you with that stick." Kim said laughing.

"So, what are we gonna do about this?" Ann asked suddenly. "No one is safe now if she is taking all of these people."

"I don't know what we can do." Kim said. "What did Zordon say David?"

"He said that he wanted all of the family's of the people who are gone to come to the command center. He was going to bring all of them there, so we'll probably go soon as well."

"All of them?" Tommy said. "That's a lot of people."

"I know." David said. "But that's what he said. Besides, the command center is huge."

"But what about uh, you know who?" Ann asked tilting her head slightly at her mother.

"I don't know what he's going to do about her." David admitted.

"What are the two of you talking about?" Tommy asked.

"You'll find out soon enough." His wife said. She looked at the five people in front of her. "Everyone will."

"Really?"

"It's a hard secret to keep for three years." Kim said. "Have you ever tried staying inside for three straight years? Besides, it was a close one today at the park with Aisha and Mimi."

"You saw Aisha at the park today?" Tommy said.

"No." Kim said.

"Yes." Ann, David, Ted, Kimmie, and Jason said together.

"Headache." Tommy responded.

"Jeez, you people are all so loud, and since when did you have another kid mom?" A voice said from the doorway.

"Willie!" Kim said. "What are you doing here?"

"I live here." Willie said. "Maybe you haven't noticed me here for the past twelve years?"

Kim smiled at her son. "We should have named you Jason."

"No thank you." Willie said. "I like my name just fine."

"And I don't think he needs my name." Jason added.

Willie nodded his agreement. "So why wasn't I invited to the party?"

"This is going to be hard to explain." Kim said. "Willie go get Zachary. Then we have to tell the two of you something."

Willie ran off to go find his brother. When he came back, he was leading a very confused looking Zachary.

"So mom, what were you gonna tell us?"

"This is going to be a very shocking story, and I am going to abbreviate it for the sake of time. But here it goes, your father and I were two of the original power rangers. He was the original green and white, and I was pink. And your brother's and sister, well basically everyone in this room right now except for the two of you, the two of us, and Alex here, are the current power rangers. And everyone you know, well all of our friends anyway, were power rangers at some point in their lives. Except for Haley who was the technical advisor for the dino thunder rangers, and Justin's wife, who is just someone he met when he went to college."

"I knew it!" Willie said.

"You did?"

"It was kinda obvious. Well about the five of them anyway. But aren't there six of you?"

"Kaylie." Kimmie answered.

"Where is she?" Willie asked.

"The story gets worse. About fourteen years ago, before you were born, there was an evil witch who lived on the moon. She was the daughter of Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd, who I know you've heard of. She captured me and your dad, and your brother and sister. But to make this extremely long story short, we got away, but she was never defeated. Now she's back, and that's why the six of them are power rangers, and she is kidnapping the former Ninjetti rangers, and all of us are going to the old command center right now, because Zordon wants us there."

Willie and Zachary just stared at their mother. That was quite a bit of information to take in. Ann's communicator went off.

"Yes?"

"Is everyone ready?" Zordon asked.

Ann looked at her two brothers. "Ready as they'll ever be."

"Prepare for teleportation to the command center."

In ten flashes of light, the Oliver kitchen emptied, and not a moment too soon either, because just then, the front door was blown in. General Haxel marched into the house, followed by about thirty putties. When he couldn't find anyone, he threw the couch through the living room window.

At the command center, they found that everyone else was there already. Zordon quickly walked over to them.

"Ann, come with me."

As they walked away, Tommy turned to the other four. "Why does he want her?"

Kimmie smiled. "Because she's in charge."