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Chapter Twenty Five-Life On the Ship

They had been on that ship for over a month. It had been exciting for the first two weeks or so. They had explored the whole ship, but now that they knew everything by heart, it was very boring.

"Remind me to never be an astronaut." Kaylie said one day. "I'm with Jason now, I want to go to school."

"Today would have been the first day." Kimmie said sadly. "I never thought I would hear myself say that I miss school. I would give anything to be in Math right about now."

"Don't let your dad here that." Ann said. "Or he'll gladly give you a math lesson right here."

"Suddenly I don't find myself missing it that much." Kimmie said quickly. "Nothing beats sitting around all day on a spaceship doing nothing."

Jason laughed. "I thought you liked school?"

"Are you kidding? Boring-est thing in the world." Kimmie announced. "I hate fractions. And grammar. And gym class. And everything else that we do in school, but I can't remember about right now."

"Gym class is the best." Jason said.

"Only when we do gymnastics." Kimmie said.

"No." Kaylie said. "Dance."

"I wish we did Karate in gym class." Ann said sadly. "It would be fun."

"Yeah." David agreed. "But it would also be lethal. Think of it, all of those teenagers trying to learn Karate. It's a scary thought."

"I've never gone to school." Crystal said thoughtfully.

"Why not?" Ted asked curiously.

"My sister didn't think it was worthwhile. Everything I know I taught myself."

Just then, Billy walked into the room.

"We have decided that since all of you have nothing better to do now, we should start with your schooling as soon as possible, if you want to rejoin your classmates when we get back."

"Are you serious dad?"

"Very."

"Oh man. I hate school." Billy smiled.

"We'll start with…"

"Please don't say math….Please don't say math." Kimmie said under her breath.

"…Math." Billy finished. Kimmie groaned.

That day passed very slowly after that. Even slower than it had been going before, when they had been bored.

That was basically how life passed for the seven rangers after that. Billy alternated between teaching them math, geography, history, science, and English. The rangers from Eltar taught them about the ship, which wasn't as boring as the other lessons. And they even had a science lab on board, which helped with their science class.

When they had about two weeks left in their journey, Lance had some good news for them.

"We have just passed the planet Pluto. We are officially in the Milky Way Galaxy." He announced over the intercom. "We should reach the planet Earth within fourteen days."

Almost immediately after the intercom went off however, the alarms went on.

"What is that?" Ted yelled over the noise.

"It's their alarm system." Billy said, rushing to the door. "Something must have set it off. All of you stay here."

Billy left the room, and Ann counted to ten, then she started towards the door.

"He said to stay here." Crystal said.

"So, since when have I ever listened to anyone?"

"Ann, you need to stay here." Ted said.

Ann glared at him reproachfully. "Fine." She muttered, then she sat down next to him. David and Jason sniggered at her behind their hands, of course she listened to Ted.

Fifteen minutes later, Billy came back into the room. The alarms had stopped blaring by then. He smiled at all of them.

"Don't worry. It was just the megaship. Andros, Ashley, Karone, and Zhane have been living on it, and they didn't recognize this ship. I think they're coming aboard though."

"Cool." Jason said. "I've always wanted to meet them."

Ann and David shook their heads sadly. Their brother was so weird. They had of course met the four of them on a few occasions. But they weren't on earth much. The last time they had seen the four of them had been at their parents wedding. And that had been about fourteen years earlier.

"You are excused from your lessons for the rest of the day." Billy finished.

"Yes!" Kimmie shouted. "I'm free! Free at last!"

"Does she do this every day after school?" Billy asked Kaylie with a worried look on his face.

"Only on the last day." Kaylie said reassuringly. "And it only happened once. But I think that was because she was finally away from Jason. That was back before she liked him, but he really liked her and was practically stalking her. It was pretty funny actually."

Billy shook his head. "Kids."

Later, the four newcomers were eating dinner with the twenty passengers on the ship. They had all been surprised to find familiar faces on the alien ship. So they were now taking the opportunity to catch up on the past fourteen years with their old friends. But after dinner, they had to leave and get back to their ship. They needed to get back to KO-35 soon.

"It was great to see them again." Kat commented. "They haven't changed a bit."

"Yeah." Aisha agreed. "I can't believe that they're all married now though. Well, Andros and Ashley was expected. But I don't think anyone knew about Karone and Zhane."

"I think it's cool that their kids are being given those service awards." Kira commented. "It shows that they follow in their parents footsteps."

"I'm tired." Conner said randomly. Kira rolled her eyes at her husband.

"You're always tired."

"Well that's because a certain little boy I know happens to like waking up randomly in the middle of the night crying."

"Are you blaming my son?" Kira asked sharply.

"Uh, no." Conner said quickly. "I meant the, uh, dog."

"Nice cover dude." Ethan said laughing.

"We don't have a dog." Kira informed her husband.

Ethan and Trent had never laughed harder in their lives.

One Week Later

"We have just passed Jupiter." Lance announced one morning. "You should be warned that over the next few days we will be passing through an asteroid belt, so there might be some contact."

"I've always wanted to pass through an asteroid belt." Jason said thoughtfully.

"Yeah, well you're weird." Ann said. "Though not as weird as Willie. Now if you want to meet someone weird, you should talk to him."

"I don't think Willie's weird." Kaylie said defensively.

"Well you like Willie." Jason said. "And speaking from the point of view of someone who often gets mistaken for Willie, he is weird. Have you ever met his friends?"

"How did you know?"

"That I got mistaken for Willie? Easy, people come up to me and call me Willie."

"Not that." Kimmie said. "How did you know she likes Willie?"

"Kind of obvious." Jason said. "Besides, he likes you too."

Kaylie's eyes went wide. "He does?" Jason nodded.

"You should hear him talking about you. To tell you the truth, it's kind of annoying. My head has never been the same."

"No." David said. "That's just since you fell on it when you were three. You've been getting steadily stupider since then."

"As interesting as this conversation is to watch," Billy said. "It has nothing to do with math."

"I hate math." Kimmie said immediately.

"I know Kimmie. You've been saying that since we started." Jason said.

"Math. Now." Billy said.

"Grumpy." Kimmie muttered.

"I wish I could give you a detention." Billy said sadly. "But it wouldn't do anything. Unless I told you that you had to spend a whole day away from Jason."

Kimmie turned bright red.

One Week Later

"We have just passed the planet Mars." Kristen's voice announced over the intercom. "We will be cloaking the ship until we land outside of the command center. We do not want Scarlette to detect us. Not that we think she'll be looking."

"Yay." Ann said. "We're almost home."

"Not even close." David said. "We still have to defeat Scarlette." He glanced at Crystal.

"I don't mind." She said. "She means nothing to me."

"Oh."

"No really. You can talk about killing her as much as you want. If I have a problem with anything, trust me, I'll let you know."

"Anyway." Ted said changing the subject quickly. "We're almost back to the command center. I can't wait to see what my mom is gonna do when she sees me."

"Believe me." Jason said. "I can wait for what my mom is gonna do to me."

"I can't wait to see that." Kimmie said.

"Wait a minute." Ann interrupted. "I'm confused. Kimmie, I thought you liked Jason."

"You aren't supposed to tell him that." Kimmie muttered, turning scarlet. Jason turned to look at her in surprise. They were lucky it was 'lunchtime', otherwise Billy would have gotten mad at them for talking again.

"You mean you didn't tell him yet?" Ann said, shaking her head. "Alright then. Jason, Kimmie likes you. There, now he knows. Oh, and Kimmie, Jason likes you as well."

"Ann!" Jason said.

"What? You should know by now that you shouldn't trust me with a secret."

"But I don't. How did you know?"

"Kind of obvious."

"Really?" Jason said, his face lighting up like he knew something that he could get her back with. "Like how it's obvious that you like Ted?"

"Exactly." Ann said indifferently. "Except the difference is that I told Ted that, so he knows."

"Wait." David said. "She told you and you didn't tell me?"

"I, uh, forgot." Ted said to his best friend.

"How could you forget that your best friends sister told you she likes you?"

"We, um, we met Crystal." Ted offered. David rose his eyebrows. "Ok, we uh, had to move to the command center. Yeah, it slipped my mind because we moved to the command center."

"That was over three months ago." David said. "How could you forget about that for three months?"

"Do you want me to tell you something that will make you feel better David?" Ann asked sweetly.

"What?"

"Lauren likes you."

"Who's Lauren?" David asked confused, then he saw Ann glaring at him. "I mean, one of your best friends, whose name happens to be Lauren, likes me? Since when?"

"Since forever."

"And you never told me?" David said, almost hysterically.

"Jeez, bro." Ann said. "It's not that important. Besides why are you getting all worked up about it? Unless of course you like her back?"

David turned a very deep shade of red, and muttered something about it being none of her business.

"None of my business?" Ann said, pretending to look hurt, but smiling at the same time. "How could it be none of my business when she is my oldest friend, and you are my twin brother. You know me, you can trust your little sister with anything."

"Ha!" Jason said suddenly, everyone turned to look at him. "You admitted it! You admitted that you are younger than him!"

"You have a point Jase." David said thoughtfully. "I have been trying to tell her that my whole life. But no, she just won't listen when both of our parents insist that I was born a full six minutes before her."

"I wish my sister and I got along this well." Crystal said quietly, but no one except for Kimmie heard her.

Kimmie smiled reassuringly. "You might consider yourself unlucky because your sister is...well...evil. But be happy you at least have her. I'm an only child, and sometimes it can get pretty boring."

"I am happy I have her. I just wish she was happy that she had me."

Just then, Billy walked back into the room. For some reason, he looked as if the entire ship was about to explode. He cleared his throat.

"I have an announcement to make." He said gravely. Everyone stopped talking, they heard the seriousness in his voice. "Something terrible has happened."

Everyone stared at him with their eyes wide and fearful. "I, am cancelling all of your classes until we get back to the command center."

The noise coming from the classroom at this announcement was so great, it was worse than the explosion Billy had feared.

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