a/n-this is just a warning for you, wether anything happens in this chapter or not, i absolutely suck at battle scenes. so, just a heads up.

Disclaimer-Not mine.

Chapter Forty-Fights Within Families, and Returns of Old Friends, Teachers, and Enemies

"You became a ranger." Jason said softly. "How could you?"

Kaylie grimaced. "I wanted to dad. I was meant to be a ranger."

Forseeing what was about to happen in that way only she could, Ann quickly ushered everyone up the stairs. This left the two members of the Scott family alone together in the Command Center.

"I told you not to do this." Jason told his daughter. "I told you what could happen to your life if you became a ranger."

"Oh yeah? When was that? Maybe before mom died when you were busy reminiscing with your friends about the 'old days'? You know, back before that Tommy guy disappeared, and Kim disappeared. Or maybe it was after mom died when you were too depressed to raise your only child?" Kaylie snapped.

The look on her father's face told Kaylie that she had gone too far. Way too far.

"Don't speak to me like that ever again." Jason hissed. "It doesn't matter what happened before. I am your father. You can't speak like that to me."

"It doesn't matter anymore." Kaylie said. tears were now streaming down her face. "It doesn't matter if you ever told me not to become a ranger. I am a ranger now. If she were here, mom wouldn't care. She would want me to be a ranger."

"But she's not here Kaylie." Jason said. "It's just you and me now. And Kaylie, I don't know what I'd do if anything happened to you. I kow I haven't been the greatest dad, but we're family."

Slowly, Kaylie wiped the tears off her face. "I'm sorry dad. But it's what I've always wanted. After listening to all of those stories you used to tell, dad, I really want this. And now, it doesn't matter what you say, because like it or not, I'm a ranger."

Jason smiled sadly and held his arms out to his daughter. "I'm sorry to honey. I over-reacted. I just don't want what happened to you rmom to happen to you."

"I'll be careful dad." Kaylie whispered, collapsing into his arms. "I promise."

Upstairs

"Well, that was different." David commented.

"What was so different about it?" Ann asked. "He just didn't want his daughter to become a ranger. It was to protect her. Remember what said when we became rangers?"

"What are you talking about?" Aisha asked. "Your mother is dead."

Ann bit her lip. "Oops. I shouldn't have said that."

"No, you shouldn't have said that." Scarlette whispered to herself. "So, the little crane isn't dead after all. I wonder how that is possible?"

She swept down the stairs in her palace. After the mysterious disapearance of her do-good younger sister, Scarlette had decided to check up on the remaining power ragers on Earth. To her extreme dislike, she had discovered that they had somehow regrouped. and the two little brats had survived her spell. She didn't know how it was possible. And to top it all off, their mother was somehow alive again as well? No, this wasn't possible. Those other rangers had killed the crane. She had been disguised under a spell Scarlette herself had cast. Scarlette knew that the crane had died. Because of her death, that pesky little yellow ranger had died as well. And then, mad with grief, the other rangers had scattered. With two of them seemingly dead, along with the two little brats, Scarlette had had no trouble tracking another one of them down a few years previously.

It had been so easy. She had gone back to the ruins of the original command center. After setting of a series of small explosions, it had only been a matter of time before one of the rangers had shown up. To Scarlette's delight, it had been one of the former pink rangers. The former pink ranger that a spent a brief stint as Scarlette's pet when she had been a child. Soon after her arrival, she was dead.

At this point however, Scarlette was interrupted from her thoughts by a distraction that had appeared in the form of none other than Tommy Oliver. Scarlette smirked. Whenever she saw Tommy, or the falcon as she referred to him, she was overcome with a sort of smugness because of the fact that he was totally devoted to her. It didn't matter that he was under a spell that made him forget that he had left behind two children, and a dead fiance. Tommy was hers and no one else's.

Scarlette smirked as Tommy drew nearer. "Hello falcon. I have a little job for you."

Ted turned to Crystal. "Did I miss something here?"

"Their mother died thirteen years ago." Crystal said quietly, she wasn't sure how the twins felt about people talking about the subject. "And their dad was put under a spell by...this um...evil witch. They are being raised by two of their parents friends who they refer to as their aunt and uncle."

"Oh." Ted said just as quietly. "I never knew that."

"It's ok." Crystal said. "I wouldn't know any of that if Scarlette wasn't my-"

"Your sister." ted offered. "It's ok. I already know. And don't worry, I'm not judging you for it. In fact, I kinda sympathize with you. You're lucky you have a sister, but she totally despises you."

Crystal smiled at him. But instead of continuing with their conversation, the two of them decided to tune into the conversation that was taking place between the twins and their parents old friends.

"Your mother is dead." Aisha repeated. "We saw her die."

"Oh she died alright." Ann said, a dark look on her face. "That's ture enough. Kimberly Hart is dead. She died years ago."

"Then how is she alive?" Tanya asked looking confused.

David cast a quick glance around the room. "Not here. It's to much in the open. We can explain downstairs. Besides, I think Kaylie and Uncle Jase will wanna here this as well."

All with confused looks on their faces, the group of former rangers followed the twins back down the stairs, and into the command center they had just left.

Scarlette scowled at the screen before her. Those stupid rangers. How did they do that? How did they always know everything? But at least one good thing had been learned from her observance. Now, Scarlette knew where her perfect little sister had got to. Crystal was a power ranger. Now if only she could learn how that pathetic little pink ranger had managed to still be alive...
The sight that met everyone's eyes as they entered the command center was Jason and Kaylie sitting at the computer, just talking to each other.

"Well as much as I'd hate to break up this family binding time," Ann began, "We have something we really need to tell you."

Both Jason and Kaylie looked up. Neither of them seemed to have noticed that everyone had left the command center to begin with.

Once everyone was situated in the command center, Ann began her story.

"Our story basically starts with our mother's death." Ann said. "We were left without a family. Billy and Trini took us in. Well more like we took them in. The two of them have kept us here under their protection for about thirteen years. About five months ago, in June, we were somehow teleported to the planet Phaedos, where we met Dulcea who gave us the power of the Ninjetti. She told us that we would not need our powers immediately, but they would help us in the time to come. That was what really sonfused the two of us."

David took over here. "It seemed rather strange to us that she would say 'in the time to come'. Why not just say in the coming months? But Dulcea hid a message there for us. A message that appeared to us fully a month later. Ann had just gone into the woods one morning for a short time. There, she found a woman who had seemingly been teleported there randomly. That woman was Kimberly Hart."

"Kimmie?" Jason said softly. Ann nodded.

"It was definitely her. I recognized her from pictures I had seen, but I didn't really think it was her. After all, my mother was dead. I had never really known her. But the two of them looked so much alike, they could be twins. We started talking, and it became apparent that she was in fact a former ranger. I didn't really think much of this. I knew that there had been other ranger teams, and more importantly, another Ninjetti ranger who possessed the spirit of the crane. I thought this could be her."

"Mom." Kaylie whispered softly so no one would here her.

"I invited her back to our house." Ann continued. "As far as I knew, everyone was still asleep. It was when I led her into the living room that things started to get weird. She walked over to a shelf that had a bunch of pictures on it, all of my mom and dad. She was just standing there staring avidly at this one picture. When I asked her about it, she told me that the picture was of herself and her fiance, and that it had been taken that morning. It was at that point that Trini entered the room. We had woken her with our talking. Kim of course, recognized Trini. Kim tried to get Trini to tell me that she had taken that picture. But Trini was silent with shock."

"No way." Rocky gasped.

"What?" David questioned.

"Trini was silent." Rocky informed him. Adam rolled his eyes. Trut Rocky to be the one to say that.

"Okay then." Ann said, while looking strangely at Rocky. "After a few minutes, Trini finally regained her powers of speech. She then had to convince Kim that she hadn't taken the piture that morning. That was when we figured out that Kim wasn't really 'back from the dead.' She was from back in time. The year 2004 to be exact."

"2004?" Aisha questioned. "But isn't that when she-"

"Was in a coma." David finished for her. "Yeah it was. This is where the story gets really weird. Right as mom fell was when she was 'teleported' to the woods outside of our house."

This statment was met with silence. No one really knew how to react to that. Ann decided to pick up the story where her brother left off.

"With Billy's help we figured out that while mom had been in her coma, part of her had somehow been transported here, to this time."

"Time travel." Ethan said. Conner groaned. It was the first noise anyone had heard him make since leaving Hayley's cafe. Trent and Ethan looked at him in surprise.

"What?" Conner asked. "Time travel is soooo confusing."

"No it isn't." Ethan insisted. "It's quite simple really."

"Of course it is." Conner muttered.

"But it is." Billy said. "It is impossible for someone to not be able to understand the sheer simplicity of travelling thru time."

"So says the genius." Conner murmured under his breath.

"Anyway," Ann continued, "Mom is still here, now, in this time."

"Kimmie's here?" Jason asked. Ann nodded, a smile on her face.

"She's upstairs." David told everyone. "I'll go get her."

"Bad timing bro." Ann said suddenly, just as David was about to walk up the stairs.

"What is?"

"Look." She was pointing at the screen in front of her. On it was a strange sight.

"What is that?" Ted asked.

"That's Tommy." Trini said in shock. "But that's impossible. Jason destroyed that."

"What?"

"The sword of darkness." Jason supplied. "And I did. That was years ago. How is it here now? And how does Tommy have the green ranger powers again?"

"Scarlette." Ann hissed suddenly. She turned to Crystal. "Scarlette was around when your mother turned our dad evil, wasn't she?"

Crystal nodded wordlessly.

"Then she somehow got hold of them again." Ann concluded. "Is that possible?"

"it doesn't matter if it's possible or not right now." Kaylie interrupted. Everyone turned to look at her. "What? In case you haven't noticed, he's kind of destroying half of Angel Grove."

"yeah, that could turn into quite a problem." Ted added sarcastically.

"Then we should go." Ann said. She pushed a button on the control panel beside her, and they were gone in five beams of light.

"Um, weren't we supposed to go with them?" Conner asked the silent room.

"Weren't the guys supposed to come with us?" Ted asked the four people standing beside him.

"They're our back-up." Ann explained. "In case we can't sontrol dad."

"Do they know that?" Kaylie asked.

"You know, it probably would have been a good idea to tell them." David said thoughtfully. "Oh well, no time for that now."

It was at that precise moment that Tommy, or Falcon as he had been called for the past thirteen years or so, spotted them. The five rangers knew that if they could see his face right now, there would be an evil grin on it. What else could they expect from an evil ranger?

"She said you would come." Tommy said. "She is always right."

"No she isn't." Ann said. "If she was always right, then I suppose we would be dead, right?"

"You will be dead." Tommy said, his voice dripping with venom.

"You know, when I envisioned meeting my father for the first time in many, many years," David began, "I didn't really see our meeting begin with death threats. Did you Ann?"

"No, not really."

"What are you talking about?" Tommy asked suspiciously.

"Oh nothing." Ann said nonchalently. "Just the fact that you're under an evil spell, and Scarlette has lied to you all these years, and you're really our dad."

"And your name is Thomas Oliver." David added.

"No, you're lying." Tommy hissed.

"I haven't told a lie since last week when Aunt Trini asked me if I ate all of the ice cream." Ann said. "But let's just keep that between us, shall we?"

"Prepare to die rangers." Tommy spat out. He wasn't putting up with another one of their distractions.

"Wait stop!" David yelled. "You know you believe us. You have to believe us. Don't you remember us? Your kids, David and Ann."

Tomm stopped dead. He had been advancing upon the unmoving group of rangers. But something was familiar about what one of the white rangers had just said.

"Ann and David." He corrected.

Ann smirked underneath her helmet. "Yep, Ann and David. Do you remember how the thre of us lived all alone in the house you bought for us in Reefside? You were a science teacher at the high school. And everyday after work, you'd pick us up from the daycare and bring us to the hospital, where we'd go visit mom. Do you remember?"

David started talking again before Tommy could answer. "And Jason and kat used to come and visit us all of the time. Remember that one time we met Jason in the hospital, and you invited hiim over for dinner, but he never showed up? That was the day mom met us for the first time. Remember how excited you were when she woke up?"

"She woke up." Tommy repeated softly. All of a sudden, he was no longer morphed. BUt his eyes seemed to be glowing green, but that too was slowly starting to fade. Was the spell wearing off?

"YEah, she did." Ann said just as softly. "You were so happy. And we took her home with us the next day. Do you remember how you surprised Aunt Kitty ad Uncle Jase? It was really funny."

A smile appeared on Tommy's face, remembering that day, so long ago. The light in his eyes was fading at a more rapid pace, but some of it was still there. Ann turned to Kaylie.

"Get the three guys." She muttered.

Kaylie nodded, and started to talking into her communicator. In no time at all, three of Tommy's former students were standing beside the five rangers.

"Hey Dr. O." Ethan said. "We haven't seen you in ages."

"Do you remember us?" Trent asked. "Trent, Ethan, and Conner. Dino Thunder Rangers. As well as part of your first period science class."

Tommy looked intently at the three young men in front of him for a moment. He seemed to see something that didn't quite fit with what he might remember. But what could that be?

"Four." Tommy announced. "There were four of you. Where's...um...Kira?"

Conner's face darkened. "She's dead. Been dead for years."

"Years." Tommy repeated. He turned to the twins. It was in relief that they saw his eyes were back to their normal brown. "And you're Ann and David?"

"Yeah." Ann said while David nodded.

"Always the outspoken one." Tommy muttered to himself. "How long has it been?"

"Over twelve years. Nearly thirteen."

"Why can't I remember any of it?" Tommy asked. "It's all a blank. The last thing I remember was talking with you guys, Hayley and Kim down in the comman center. But the two of you were only two years old then. Why can't I remember?"

"Scarlette." David answered. "She had you under a spell."

Suddenly, Crystal stepped forward. "Do you remember me?"

Tommy looked at her strangely, recognition sparking in his eyes. "I remember you." He said slowly. "You were there...at the moon palace. You lived there. She always called you a goody two shoes. i don't think she likes you very much. But who are you?"

"She doesn't like me very much." Crystal confirmed. "And I'm her younger sister."

"What?!" An angry voice shouted. And surprisingly enough, it wasn't Tommy. It was Conner.

"She's my younger sister." An oily voice said from behind the group of unmorphed rangers.

As one, the eight of them turned to see who had spoken, although they all already knew it could only be one person. Standing there, was Scarlette.

A/n-hey guys! It's been a while, hasn't it? Well at least I think ti has. Anyway, sorry for not updating in however long its been since I last updated. I was gonna do it yesterday, but I spent the day at this showchoir thing for my sister. Anway, hope u liked the chapter. Next one soon!