disclaimer-if i owned the power rangers, kim never would've sent tommy that letter.

Chapter Twenty Six-The Return

"Calm down Kim. You're wearing a hole in the floor." Trini commented.

"Well, what do you expect? I haven't seen three of my five children in over three months." Kimberly snapped.

"And I haven't seen my husband and my only child in that amount of time either. Longer, if we're talking about my husband."

"Oh, I'm so sorry Trini. I didn't mean to snap at you. I'm just so anxious to see them, that's all."

"It's alright Kim. I know exactly how you feel."

"I hope they're all safe." Kimberly said, looking down at the baby, asleep on the blanket beside her. "Everyone would lose someone if something happened to them."

"That is rather strange." Trini said. "Everyone lost at least one person in their family. Well, everyone except for Justin, but Rocky is like a brother to him, so I guess that counts."

Tommy walked in then, followed closely by Willie and Zachary. They seemed to be arguing about something.

"Come on dad. Please, we're begging you, just let us go to school." Willie said. He would have been down on his hands and knees if he wasn't trying to keep up with his father's fast stride.

"You know you want to let us go dad." Zachary added. "Please? We'll never ask for anything else ever again." Willie shot his triplet a worried glance. "Well, we won't ask for things that are absolutely unnecessary and wouldn't be for the betterment of mankind if we got them."

"Well there goes all of the things I've been meaning to ask for." Willie said. "Do you think you could live up to your reputation of being the smartest kid in the whole school just once? Now our lives are ruined, and all because we were begging our father to let us go to school."

"Is there a problem?" Kimberly interrupted.

"No!" The two boys said together. Tommy shook his head at his two younger sons.

"Those two over there want to be let out. They apparently want to go to school."

"I never thought I would see the day when the two of you agreed on something, and it was your schooling." Kimberly said. "You really have grown up since you turned twelve."

"Come on mom." Willie begged. "Let us go. We want to go to school. Is that so much to ask? We just want to be normal seventh graders."

"Yes, it is too much to ask." Kimberly answered. "If you go out there, and are discovered as being our children, then your lives are in grave danger. And you will be normal seventh graders. Normal home-schooled seventh graders. Everyone will be back any day now, and then all of you will have something to talk about. I bet the two of you just can't wait to see your brothers and sister again. Not to mention that Kimmie, Kaylie and Ted will all be back as well."

Before the two boys could respond however, alarms started blaring, and Alex woke up. People were running all around the room, trying to figure out what the problem was. Kimberly was trying to make Alex stop crying, and Zordon and Alpha were nowhere in sight. All of a sudden, the alarms stopped, and they got a clear picture of what was happening outside.

"What is that?" Zachary asked. There was a brilliantly white ship standing out there. And it certainly hadn't been there two minutes before.

"I have no idea." Willie answered.

"Well I don't care about your opinion. You wouldn't know, because you were never a power ranger."

"None of us know." Tommy said quickly trying to avoid the inevitable fight that would ensue.

"It is from Eltar." Zordon said, finally appearing in the room. "Sorry I wasn't here before. It's hard work cleaning out a zord bay. I only just finished when the alarms went off. Don't worry, it isn't hostile. In fact, we should be expecting them any second now."

As if on cue, fifteen beams of light suddenly appeared in the room. When the light died down, fifteen former and current power rangers were standing in the command center.

"Ann, David, Jason!" Kimberly cried, running up to her children, still holding Alex, who was still wailing.

"Please don't kill me mom." Jason said, backing away.

Kimberly shook her head at her son. "Why would I kill you? Oh, Kira, Conner. I believe this belongs to you."

She deposited the child into its mothers waiting arms. The crying immediately stopped when Alex heard his mother's voice. "Stop crying Alex. Mommy and Daddy are back now."

Two families reunited, only five left to go. With some exceptions, like in the cases of Ethan and Trent, who didn't have any family there. People were hugging all over the room. Jason and Thomas had missed Kat and Kaylie. Trini had been on the verge of a breakdown without Billy and Kimmie. Tanya and Teresa had missed the men in their family. Haley had had to handle a crazy five year-old all by herself without Rocky. Zack had been responsible for three kids all under the age of eight for the three months Aisha had been gone. Needless to say, all children missed their parents. And all adults missed their spouses.

Twenty minutes later, the reunions were still taking place. Suddenly, six more beams of light filled the room. It was the rangers from Eltar, along with Crystal. They had remained on the ship because they had to make sure everything was powered down before they left, and they would have felt out of place in this strange place amidst all of these families being reunited. Now though, everyone turned to look at the new arrivals. Zordon stepped forward, knowing why they had come.

"Welcome Rangers. Welcome to the Earth Command Center."

"Zordon!" Charisse practically yelled, running up to the old man and giving him a hug. "We have been so distraught on Eltar. Why did you not tell us that you were alive once more? We have all missed you so much. And your guidance would be welcome back home."

"Well, hello to you too." Zordon said, happy to see people from his home planet. "Thank you for taking charge of these people for the past three months. Your services are greatly appreciated."

"You're welcome." Lance said, sighing. "Do you know how hard it was to keep those seven occupied? We thought the ship was being attacked yesterday, they were being so loud."

"Ah yes." Zordon said. "Young people do tend to be more restless. But I do hope it was for a good reason that they were being do rowdy?"

"You bet." Kimmie said, grinning from her place beside her mother. "Dad cancelled school. It was great."

"See Willie, Zachary. They don't want to go to school." Kim said to two of her boys. "So why on earth do you?"

"They weren't on earth." Zachary said. "It's a whole other perspective when you're here, than when you're in outer space."

"I knew there was a reason why I thought people were crazy when they said the three of us were so alike." Jason said. "I am related to two lunatics. Who on earth wants to go to school?"

"You do know you're obsessed with that, don't you?" Kimmie asked.

"I'm not the one who was muttering to herself the whole time we were in math."

"I hope not." Ann said. "Seeing as you aren't a girl."

"Who are all of you?" Zordon asked, interrupting the conversation you just heard, or rather, read, and speaking to the rangers from Eltar.

"I'm Charisse." Charisse said, still standing by Zordon.

"Andrew."

"Kristen."

"Timothy."

"And you are Lance." Zordon said. "I recognize you. You are the spitting image of your father. He was a magnificent ranger. I remember you from when he would bring you with him to work some days."

"I remember that too." Lance said smiling. "I thought it was so cool to be going with him to where the power rangers were. Everyone knew who they were, but no one really knew them."

"Uncle Billy?" Willie interrupted. "Do you think we can start school, like right now?"

"Are you sure he's the guy you like?" Kimie asked Kaylie quietly. "Because if you two end up married and have kids, I think I might just die of fright."

"How do you like Jason?" Kaylie retaliated. "He's so much like them."

"But he isn't obsessed with going to school." Kimmie said. "He isn't crazy."

"Who isn't crazy?" Jason asked.

"You." Kimmie and Kaylie said at the same time.

"Thank you." Jason said, beaming. "I have been trying to convince people of that my whole life."

"Keep trying." Ann said. "I still say your crazy." (Remember the argument they were having like a million chapters ago? Jason was crazy)

"Are you serious?" Billy asked Willie.

"I wish he wasn't." Jason said.

"Totally. And Zachary wants to start too." Willie said, ignoring his brother.

"If I died right now do you think anyone would notice?" Jason asked. Everyone ignored him. "Guess not."

Flashback

"Where are they Goldar?!"

"I don't know mistress. I have been watching this door the entire time. No one entered except for your sister, and no one left."

"She never left? Great, I bet she figured out how to use some of her powers. This is all your fault Goldar."

"What did I do?"

"Shut up! And inform me when you have located their whereabouts."

End Flashback

That had been over three months ago. The rangers had all disappeared, along with that detested sister of hers. But soon she would find them again. They would be so sorry for trying to escape.

a/n- hoped you liked this chapter. I know it's kind of boring, but the next one will be better. and yay for Kim, she didn't kill anyone!