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Chapter Eighteen-How Many Ways Are There To Kill A Ranger?(and who's going to use them?)

Ann looked around, her eyes wide with worry. Where was he?

"Oh no." David said softly.

"Don't say that." Ann hissed at her brother. "Don't you dare say that. When you say that, it means something bad happened. And nothing bad is going to happen. Everything is going to be just fine. Kyle's fine. He just wandered off."

"Yeah." David agreed. "He wandered off to a house he's been to before, that's full of evil people he thinks he knows."

Ann spun around to face her brother. "If anything happens to him, it's all your fault."

"Why me?"

"Because, I'm mad, and I want to kill you. That's why!" Ann nearly shouted.

"Enough!" Kim said suddenly. "If I ever get out of here, I'm going to kill Tommy personnally. This is all his fault, okay? Now, stop arguing or they'll find us."

"Look on the bright side." Hayley continued for her, trying to avoid looking at the menacing group of ex-rangers, in front of the house the four-year old little boy she'd just met had just walked in to. "They won't hurt him. Scarlette wanted all of you alive. And on some level, they're all still good."

"Yeah." Ann muttered darkly. "On a sub-level buried so deeply, even dad wouldn't find it when he goes pshyco-paleontologist on us."

She then looked up at the three people grouped around her. "So, what are we gonna do to get him back?"

At the sound of Ada's voice, a small frown appeared on Scarlette's face.

"That isn't right." She said, more to herself than the other two people in the room. "The red ranger wasn't a girl."

Ada smirked from behind her helmet. "Of course he wasn't. If you really wanna know, he still isn't. But that's beside the point. You're quite right. I am a girl. I'm so glad we have that settled. So, wanna give me back my gra- give me back the falcon?"

"No." Scarlette snapped. "I think not. He's mine now. I have him under my control. There's nothing you can do to save him. Or the others."

"Then it's a pity she's not alone in saving him." A voice said from behind Ada. She knew without turning to look that it was Sam.

"Who are you people?" Scarlette nearly screeched. "You aren't the same bluie ranger as before! I know you aren't! So who are you?!"

As she yelled, purple and red sparks seemed to fly from the staff clutched tightly in her hand.

"Tsk, tsk." Sam said, shaking his head. "Temper, temper. Now I can see why your parents wanted Crystal to succeed them."

If anything, this just made Scarlette madder than before.

"Don't you dare." Scarlette breathed. "Don't you dare talk to me about that worthless girl I have the misfortune of calling family. And while we're on the subject, don't you dare speak a word about my worthless family as well."

"Well then, if you don't want to talk about your family," Ada said, "Want to talk about mine? You ruined my family. You orphaned my mom and my uncle when they were barely old enough to remember their parents. You took away the only father my dad ever had the chance to know. And yet, you weren't satisfied. You had to destroy everything my parents and grandparents ever stood for. You had to destroy the rangers!"

"I don't know what you're talking about." Scarlette said loftily. "Trust me, I would remember destroying the rangers. It would be the highlight of my life. As for ruining your family, can't help you there. The last family I tore apart was my own."

"Hold up a sec." Sam said suddenly. "Did I miss something? What ever happened to 'Don't you dare sepak a word about my worthless family'? I swear those were the exact words I heard you say. "

"Stupid rangers." Scarlette hissed manacingly. "I wonder how many ways there are to kill you people? Too bad I won't be able to try them all."

"Yeah, a real shame." Another voice said from behind the pair of rangers. "By the way, Scarlette, you really should do something about the hired help around here. Terribly easy to beat. Where's the challenge in that?"

An evil grin lit up Scarlette's face as she took in the assembled group of six more rangers.

"Little pink ranger, it's been too long."

"Yes, much too long." Ann said dryly. "Now, you wanna let dad and the others go now? Or are we gonna have to do this the hard way?"

"I like doing things the hard way." Scarlette said, going to raise the arm holding her staff. But there was a slight problem. Her staff wasn't there anymore. Scarlette's eyes bulged in surprise.

"No you don't." Crystal contradicted from her place behind her older sister, as she held the missing staff in her right hand. "You are the laziest person I've ever met."

"You." Scarlette hissed, spinning around to see the girl behind her.

"Me." Crystal confirmed. She clutched the staff tighter. "Now, you are going to leave. Leave this palace, and never come back. It has always been mine, and it always will be. Because I am more kind than you will ever be, I am going to give you a head start. The intergalactic police should be here any moment, and I'm giving you the chance to get away."

"Never." Scarlette stated. "I will never surrender to you."

"Dude." Jason said suddenly. "You really don't have much of a choice. She has the staff. You have nothing. Give it up."

"No." Scarlette said stubornly.

They heard a scuffling noise from outside the throne room doors. Crystal sighed.

"Well, there goes your chance." She said, as the police walked into the room, leading Goldar and Haxel.

The one who looked like he was in charge turned to Ann, well, he turned to the pink ranger.

"She the one?" He asked, indicating Crystal, who was pointing the staff at Scarlette.

"Nope." Ann said. She pointed at Scarlette. "It's her. Take her, and lock her away tight."

"No problem, ma'am." The officer said. He walked over to Scarlette. "Let's go, miss."

"You haven't seen the last of me!" Scarlette hollered as she was dragged from her own throne room. "You'll see me again, you stupid little rangers!"

"Yeah." Ann said. "Somehow, I highly doubt that. I never want to see any of them again."

Ada bit back a smile. "Not even Goldar?"

Ann narrowed her eyes at her daughter. "No. Why?"

"No reason." Ada said airily. "I don't really think I should tell you that a week ago, my time, a formerly evil, bad guy, by the name of Goldar, was released from the intergalactic prison."

"You're right." Ann said. "You really shouldn't tell me that."

"Then I won't." Ada said.

"People!" Willie said suddenly, coming out of nowhere. "As nice as it is to witness this mother-daughter bonding time, I think we...well, you have some pressing business to attend to. Remember those people we call parents? Heck, one of them is standing right next to you, Crystal. And I would just like to take the opportunity to point out that he is still evil."

All nine rangers turned to see that Willie was, in fact, correct about the current situation of their parents.

"I'll get right on that." Crystal said, raising her staff.

Kyle hadn't meant to wander away from his mom. Really, he hadn't.

But this house, it was just so familiar. It was the house Jordan, Calvin, and Henry had taken him to on that big ship. And Ada had said that it was where Mommy used to live. She was right. The house was so cool, but very dirty.

So now, when he found himself back at the very same house, you can't really blame him for being curious. So, he had left his mother to go look closer at the familiar house.

And it was when he got in the house, that he recognized a familiar person. A very familiar person.

"Grandma!" Kyle practically shrieked when he saw Tanya standing with her back to him, facing the kitchen.

As she turned around in surprise at the sound of his voice, she glowed a soft yellow color. She blinked her eyes rapidly as if she was not quite sure how she had ended up where she was. Then, she caught sight of the little boy.

"Grandma!" Kyle said again.

"Um...who are you?" Tanya asked.

The boy's lip seemed to quiver. "Don't you recognize me, grandma? It's me, Kyle."

Tanya looked at him cluelessly. "Um, okay...Kyle. Where are your mom and dad? And how did you get here?"

"Well," The little boy said, cheerful once more, "Mommy is outside with Grandma Kim, and Hayley, and Ada said Daddy was going to the moon, with my other mommy."

"Kim and Hayley are here?" Tanya asked. "Where?"

"Outside." Kyle said. "Oh, Uncle David is there, too."

"Then let's go find them." Tanya said, taking Kyle's hand.

Just as they were about to start walking out of the house, however, Adam appeared out of nowhere.

"Tanya!" He said. "How did we get here? Last thing I remember was being in the dark dimension."

"I have no idea." Tanya answered, just as Adam caught sight of Kyle.

"Um...who's the kid?"

"I'm Kyle." Kyle said happily. "It's okay that you don't remember me, grandpa, you just met me a couple of hours ago. Ada told me it would have to sink in for a little bit." A frown passed over his face at this. "But I don't understand that. You aren't made of water, are you?"

"...No." Adam said slowly. "Did you just call me 'grandpa'?"

Kyle nodded.

"Don't worry." Tanya said softly. "He thinks I'm his grandma. Come on, he said his mom is outside with Kim, Hayley, and I think it was David."

Together, the three of them walked outside, to find Ann and David cautiously approaching the front door.

"Mommy!" Kyle cried, running into Ann's arms. "I'm sorry I left! But look, I found Grandma and Grandpa. Aren't you so glad?"

"Very." Ann said. She looked up to see Tanya and Adam's bewildered expressions. "Don't worry. There's a very good explanation for all of this. A bit long, but it looks like we have time, as long as you aren't evil anymore?"

"We were evil?" Adam questioned.

Ann smiled. "Come on, we have to make sure everyone else is alright."

"Done." Crystal announced, as Tommy shook his head to clear his vision.

"Was I evil?" Tommy questioned. "Again?"

"Yep." Ada said. "But come on, we have to get back to the house. Everyone should be there. And I don't even want to know what kind of trouble Kyle is getting himself into."

"Who's Kyle?" Tommy questioned. He looked closer at the red ranger. "And who are you?"

"No time for that now, dad." Jason said. "Let's just get back to the house."

Tommy shook his head slightly. "Why are there two red rangers?"

"Because." Ada said. "We wanted to start a new thing in this family. Instead of having one person have multiple colors, we're having one team have multiple colors."

"F-Family?" Tommy stuttered.

"Gosh." Ada sighed. "Now I know why everyone made fun of you for always being late. You wouldn't ever leave!"

After this, everyone seemed to be able to pull themselves together enough so that they could all teleport to the Oliver house, except for Crystal, who decided her newly acquired empire needed immediate attention.

"Ted!" Was the first thing they all heard once the nine of them had teleported to the living room.

"Dad." Ted said, a little less enthusiastically, shrinking away from his fathers gaze. "What's up?"

Adam appeared in their midst, hiolding Kyle's hand. "This young man tells me that you're his father."

"Um...yeah." Ted said awkwardly. "Sorta kinda maybe, yes?"

Ann snorted in laughter. Ted glared at her as Adam turned his gaze to his son's girlfriend.

"And he says that you, Ann, are his mother." Tommy's head swiveled so fast to look at his only daughter, that he appeared to crick it.

"She is." Kyle confirmed. He pointed at David. "And that's Uncle David." Then, he pointed at Kimmie. "And that's Aunt Kimmie." Then he looked at the triplets for a moment. "And Ada says that they're our uncles, too. But I've never met them before."

Tommy's eyes seemed to flash green as he stared down his daughter and her boyfriend. "So, is he telling the truth?"

"Yes." Ada said calmly, from her position right next to her grandfather. "But you needn't get so mad at them. Kyle and I haven't been born yet."

Tommy's head snapped in her direction. "Is Kyle your brother?"

"Yep." Ada said. "Rather annoying, really."

"I'll say." Sam muttered darkly. "Won't stop going on about birds."

Kyle seemed to gasp, as if he had somehow forgotten the birds. He looked at Tommy in awe.

"You're one of the birds." Kyle said.

Ada glared at Sam. "You just has to bring that up again, didn't you?"

"Oops?" Sam said sheepishly.

"Enough." Tommy said. "Would someone please just tell me what's going on here, from the beginning?"

"Okay." Ada said. "Hello. My name is Ada Park. I was born in the year 2022, on the eighteenthanniversary of my grandparents and their friends disappearance. Sixteen years later, in the year 2038, S.P.D. fell. It was shortly after this, like ten minutes, that Kyle and I met Dulcea and became rangers. In short, a lot of time travel was involved, and we, along with our mother and uncle, as teenagers, went back in time to the day everyone was taken prisoner by Scarlette, and changed the events of history to the way they were supposed to be all along. Then, we came to this time period to help everyone out with saving you all, again. Now, here we are rejoicing at our vistory and getting mad at my parents for having children in the future who have a good connection with Time Force."

"In a strange way," Tommy said, "This all makes sense."

"Of course it does." Ada said consolingly. "Time travel isn't at all confusing."

"Yes it is!" Jason and Kimmie said together.

"Just keep telling yourselves that." Ada said. "Now, it's about time Sam, Kyle, and I got back to our own future. Things sure are going to be different there. Oh, and don't forget to send the four of us back, or things sure are going to get messed up."

And in a flash of light, the five time travellers were gone. Two, had disappeared into the time stream, still leaving behind a different version of themselves. The other three, to the waiting time ship, which disappeared in another flash of light nobody saw.

"Well," Zachary said after a moment, "That was certainly interesting. And to think, just a few days ago, I didn't even know my parents were former power rangers."

Ann sighed as everyone else laughed. "I miss them already."

"Don't worry." Jason said, with a sparkle in his eyes. "According to your wonderful daughter, you'll be seeing her again in about two years."

Ted groaned. "You just had to open you're big mouth, didn't you?"

Jason grinned as Tommy and Adam glanced at each other. "Couldn't help myself."

"Ann, Ted." Tommy said menacingly. "I suggest you run."

"And fast." Adam finished.

"I'm going to kill you, Jason Oliver!" An hollered as she sprinted out of the room and as far away as she could from her maniacle father as possible.

a/n-two more chapters left.