a/n-sorry if i didn't make it clear in the last chapter. kim is the person with crystal. she was never mentioned by name cuz crystal obviously didn't know who kim was.

disclaimer-i dont think i own this.

Chapter Seven-Reunions at the Command Center

"What happened?" The woman repeated.

Crystal just stood there for a moment. Then, a huge grin broke out over her face.

"Yes!" she exclaimed. "It worked!"

"What worked?" The woman asked, confused.

"I freed you." Crystal explained. "By the way, who are you?"

"My name is Kimberly Hart." Kim said. "Who are you?"

"I'm Crystal Moon." Crystal said. "Do you remember me?"

But Kim didn't answer. She had closed her eyes and was taking deep breaths. FInally, she opened her eyes.

"No." Kim said softly. "That's impossible. You were just a little girl. Now...now, you're older than I am."

"Look," Crystal said, "I know this seems really strange to you, but I promise that there's a really good explanation for it all. For now, you have to help me with these two guys, then we have to get out of here."

"What two-Tommy!" Kim said suddenly catching sight of her fiance. "What's wrong with him?"

"PLease, just help me get him out of the light. You're smaller than him, so it was easy getting you out." Crystal explained. "I'll need help with him, and that other one right there."

It took a bit of time, but the two managed to free Tommy, then Adam. Both men looked a bit more shaken up than Kim did. After all, she was the one who had just woken up from the three year coma, well, sort of anyway. Crystal turned to Tommy.

"Know anywhere safe I can take you?"

"Yeah...but what about everyone else?" Tommy questioned.

"We san't help them now." Crystal said sadly. "With you three it was luck. So, where are we going?"

Tommy pulled his sleeve up to reveal his communicator. "Thank goodness I had Hayley hoook that teleporter up to the main computer. We're going to the command center."

"Hayley...Hayley..." Calvin muttered to himself.

"Yes, that's what she said her name was." Jordan said. "Anything else?"

"Where have I heard that name before?" Henry asked. "It sounds so familiar."

Hayley smiled at him. "I was the 'technical assisstant' for the Dino Thunder team. I basically built this whole place. Minus the actual cave of course."

"Mom and Uncle David talk about you all the time." Ada said. "Uncle Conner too. The way they described you, you'd think you were Uncle Billy's female clone or something. Which in itself, is rather scary."

"Billy, Billy Cranston?" Hayley quesioned. "Original blue ranger?"

"Was everyone we know a ranger?" Kyle asked suddenly. "That's what Dulcea said about mommy and daddy. She said they were birds. Are you a bird?"

Hayley chuckled softly. "No, I'm not a bird. But I bet a lot of the people you knew were rangers once."

"That's so cool!" Kyle said in awe.

Sam opened his mouth and started to say something as well, btu stopped immediately when a black light appeared in the room. Hayley gasped as soon as it appeared.

"Teleportation." She muttered, before four people appeared in the room. Then, she gasped again. "T-Tommy?"

The man who could only be Tommy turned at the sound of his name. His eyes went wide with shock when he saw seven other people down there, one of whom he recognized.

"Is that you Hayley?" He questioned. "When did you get so...old?"

"Oh, I don't know." Hayley said in an offhand sort of voice. "It might have had something to do with thirty four years passing since the last time we saw each other."

Kim fainted.

Thankfully, Tommy caught her in time. He laid her gently upong the stone floor, and straightening up, looked back to Hayley.

"What do you mean, 'thirty four years?' I just saw you like an hour ago. Remember? We were planning to attack the moon palace, and the intergalactic police had just taken Goldar away to prison? Everyone was there."

Hayley looked at Tommy with a sad expression on her face. "Tommy, all of that happened over thirty years ago. Scarlette must have captured you and frozen yo in time or something. I didn't even know she could do that."

"I wouldn't put it past her." Crystal muttered.

"Who are you?" Ada asked. "I know who the other three are, but you don't look like anyone I know of."

"That's Crystal." Kim answered from her position on the floor. "She is Scarlette's younger sister. But she doesn't pose a threat to us. She freed us from the dark dimension. At least I think that was the dark dimension?"

"It was." Tommy replied. "I've been in there enough times to know what it looks like."

"I'll just take your word for it then." Adam said. He turned to Ada. "So, who are you?"

Ada smiled. "I'm your granddaughter."

"WHAT?!" Tommy and Adam said at the same time.

"I. Am. Your. Granddaughter." Ada repeated. Then she turned to Tommy. "Your's as well."

Tommy looked shocked, while Adam just looked confused.

"But I don't have any children." Adam finally stated. "How on earth could I have a grandkid?"

"Grandkids." Ada corrected. "This is my little brother."

Kyle waved. "Hi, I'm Kyle. Are you a bird too?"

"Don't ask." Ada hastily said. "By the way, my name is Ada."

"I don't have any kids." Adam repeated.

"Grandma Tanya adopted dad when he was four." Ada explained. "You guys had already been gone for about two years then."

"What about us?" KIm asked. "What happened to our kids?"

"Well, Ann is obviously our mother." Ada said. "And Uncle David just chills at home. Uncle Billy and Aunt Trini took the two of them in."

"So Billy escaped?" Tommy asked. "What about Conner? Conner was with Billy. I know Trent got captured, but Conner was alright, right?"

"Uncle Conner is the best!" Kyle said. "He taught me how to play soccer. But you know what? He always seems real sad. I don't know why though."

"Kira." Hayley, Tommy, and Kim said together.

"Conner loved her." Kim explained. "But she got captured with us. Thirty four years. How old would that make everyone?"

"Let's see, mom, dad, and Uncle David are all thirty six. Umm...Aunt Kimmie is thirty two. Uncle Jason, Uncle Zack, Uncle Billy, Aunt Trini, and Aunt Tanya are all sixty two." Ada paused for a moment and glanced at her grandparents. "Wow, you three sure look good for sixty two-year olds."

"We want to see them." Adam said softly. "Where are they?"

"We live in the aquabase." Kyle said happily. "You know, this is like the second time in my life that I've ever been out of there. Isn't that so cool?"

"You mean they've cooped you up inside all of this time?" Kim questioned.

"They had to." Ada replied. "Scarlette is still out there, and she would have found us. Then no one would be able to rescue you. Well, there would still be Crystal of course, but she only managed to get the three of you."

"I hate to interrupt." Jordan interrupted. "But we really shold be getting out of here. Everyone on the megaship!"

"Does Andros know about this?" Tommy questioned the young woman.

"Uh, no. Not really." Jordan said.

"Ooh." Kim said softly. "You're gonna be in trouble."

a/n-so im updating sooner than i thought i would. im not promising anything, but i'll try to update soon. i have another story that needs to be updated, if i can figure out what i did with the chapter of course. which brings up a good point, you should all consider yourselves lucky that the imspiration for these chapters comes when im on the computer, so that they can be typed. unlike my other story, where it is all written on paper, and easy to lose. anyway, hope u liked it. next chapter, reunions at the aquabase...