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Chapter Eighteen-A day to Remember

No one would ever know how it had been done. But it had. In less than three days, Trini and Kim had managed to pull off a wedding. It had to be some sort of record.

The caterer's were charging a little more than they usually did, but that was because of the short notice. All of the previous power rangers had been invited; all of them were coming. Trini and Billy's family members had been informed, and all of them were planning to attend. They wouldn't miss it; they had been waiting for it for a year. The Oliver-Hart household was spotless, the backyard was decorated, and the twin's were forbidden from going anywhere except their own rooms. They had been spending a great deal of time with Haley.

Everything was ready, dresses had even been found for Ann, the flower girl, and for Trini's bridesmaids. Trini already had a dress. Tuxes had been rented for all of the guys in the wedding party, and for David, who was going to be the ring bearer. The only thing that they had left to do was have the actual ceremony.

"Trini, calm down, everything is fine." Aisha said trying to calm down her predecessor. "Everything has been taken care of."

"I totally forgot about ushers." Trini exclaimed. "Who is gong to seat everyone?"

"Don't worry." Kat said. "Tommy had the guys from dino thunder take care of it, we knew you would forget."

"Now really, Trini, there s nothing else to worry about." Kim said sternly, she glanced expectantly at the door, then looked back at Trini.

"How do I look?" Trini asked for the hundredth time that day.

"You look beautiful Aunt Tree." Ann said.

"Thank you sweet heart." Trini said looking at the little girl's mother, who nodded her agreement.

"Well then, I guess everything really is set."

Just then there was a knock at the door.

"Don't worry." Jason's voice called out. "It's just me."

Kim went quickly to open the door. "Yes?"

"Kim can I talk to you for a second?"

"Sure." Kim said easily, stepping out of the room. "What's up? If anything is wrong, don't you dare tell Trini, she will murder you."

"Trust me, she won't murder me for this." Jason said. "Kim, do you know who is walking Trini down the aisle?"

"No one is. She decided to walk it alone. She hasn't been really close to her father, and there was no one else she wanted to ask. Well, no one that is alive anyway. I know that if it was possible, she would ask Zordon."

"What if she could?"

"She would love you forever." Kim stated knowingly.

"Kim, I'm warning you, don't you dare faint." Jason said, as he opened the door to the guest room. Standing in there was the last person that anyone had ever expected to see again. It was Zordon.

"Oh, My God!" Kim said. "Am I dreaming? I thought you were dead."

"I was. But now is not the time to discuss that. All you need to know right now, is that someone helped me back. He doesn't recall doing it, but he did it. I will tell all of you how it happened later, so that I don't have to tell the story more than once."

"OK." Kim said softly, staring at the old man she loved like a father. He had been her mentor as power ranger, but he had seemed more like a father to all of them. She knew that smiling face anywhere. Although it had technically been years, it felt like just yesterday she had last spoken to him.

"Go bring him back with you." Jason told Kim beaming. "No one else knows that he is here, and he wants to walk Trini down the aisle."

Kim was also beaming. She led Zordon back to the spare bedroom that was serving as the Bride's Room. She knew that Trini would be speechless when she walked into the room.

"Hey Kim, what took you so long?" Trini asked. "I can't go out there without my maid of honor."

"Trini." Kim said, staring her best friend in the face, her facial expression revealing nothing. "Let's face it, you need someone to walk you down the aisle. I know you don't want your dad, but I have someone even better. Now, don't scream, or be too surprised. But here he is." And Kim stepped back to reveal Zordon standing there.

Trini's jaw literally dropped, as did Aisha's and Kat's. Ann seemed completely oblivious to the fact that the room had gone totally silent, she was admiring her pink dress in the mirror.

"Zordon? But how?" Aisha asked.

"Now is not the time for that. All that matters is that I am back. And I am here for you today. I am here for all of you." He said.

"Oh Zordon." Trini said, going over and giving him a huge hug.

"Now, I believe we have a wedding to start." Zordon said. "But first." He walked over to where Ann was standing.

"Who do we have here?" He asked, kneeling down so he was at her level.

"My name is Ann Trinity Oliver-Hart." Ann said. "That's my mommy." She continued, pointing at Kimberly.

Zordon smiled at the little girl. "You are a very special little girl Ann Trinity. I owe you a lot. And I want to thank you so much."

"Your welcome." The little girl said happily. She had no idea what she had done, but she liked this nice old man.

With that, Kat led Ann downstairs, so that the ceremony could start.

Later

"Oh my gosh. Did you see the looks on their faces?" Kat asked.

"I thought they were going to die." Aisha said laughing.

"I have never seen any of them so speechless like that." Kim joined in.

They were discussing all of the former ranger's reactions when they had recognized the old man walking Trini down the aisle.

"I wish that I could have gotten a picture of their faces." Kat said wistfully.

"Fear not." Jason said coming over. "I carefully positioned our beloved Rocky DeSantos close to the front, and he captured the most memorable picture that I will ever see."

"He got a picture of all of their faces?" Aisha asked excitedly. "I can't wait to see it."

"You bet he got a picture. He was with me when Zordon came over. It was actually his idea to take the picture. But anyway, Zordon wanted to tell us something remember? He wants to see everyone right now."

The four former rangers hurried to the living room were Zordon was sitting. The first four groups of rangers were all there; having been the teams that knew Zordon. There were also a couple random people there too, like Haley who was there with Rocky, and the twins who were asleep and who also happened to live there. When everyone was there, Zordon started to speak.

"I know that all of you believed that I was dead, and for a while I was. I told Andros to shatter my energy tube, when he did that, he destroyed some of the most evil beings to ever exist. For that I thank him. But if it hadn't been for a few other people, I wouldn't be here with you today.

"In fourteen years from now, you will all be aquainted with the sixteen year old Oliver twins. A few of you met them the other day. You will come to know essentially the same two people, except they will be different. They will have lived different lives. They will not have grown up without their parents. However, it is because of them not having parents that I was brought back. Billy knows what I am talking about, don't you Billy?"

Billy nodded. "I remember everything now."

"In the alternate future, Billy traveled to the past, and restored my life. I do not know how it was possible, and he does not know either. But he did know that he needed to do it sometime before the day when the twins appeared in the past. If he did it then, I would still be alive after they saved their parents, which they did. Billy knew that Kimberly and Tommy needed to be saved. For those of you who met the twins, you might have thought that they were perfectly normal teenagers, but they weren't. First and foremost, they were power rangers, which makes them anything but normal. Secondly, however loved they might have been, they did not have the love of their parents. The love of the falcon and crane. The falcon and crane may not be their animal sprits, but they fly within them. Everyday of their lives the twin's could feel the gap that the crane left, and they could hear the cries of the falcon. He was crying for the crane. The crane that was dead and could not save him.

"After Billy restored me, Kimberly came back, in a sort of spirit form. Although she was dead, she had heard the cry of the falcon, and she knew how to save him. She had a plan, she just needed the help of her children too save Tommy. With her back in the form she was in, the gap was once again filled, and they could break the spell over their father. The only problem was, he had vanished. There was absolutely no way to track him down. Except through the past. They went to the past, to save everyone. They did not do it for personal gain at all. When they came back, they saved Tommy from the evil spell, they saved Kimberly from death at the hands of her friends, they saved Kimberly's friends from having to live with the grief of killing her, and they saved Kira."

Kira wasn't there at the moment. She had gone home about an hour ago, along with Conner, Trent, and Ethan. They had felt that the older rangers wanted some time alone with their old mentor.

"It was under strange circumstances that Kira died." Zordon continued. "There is a bond between all rangers that connects you deeper than you know. You just have to find the correct person that you are bonded to. Mostly, you are bonded to someone who has the same color as you. Sometimes, but very rarely, you are bonded to another person who you will most likely never even meet. The two of you will share a special secret, the secret of the power rangers. You will be linked together forever. Kira was linked together with Kimberly. At the time of Kimberly's death, a part of Kira died. The part of her that died, was her spirit. She lost faith in everything, and just gave up. Unfortunately for her, she happened to be in the middle of a huge battle at the time, and she was dealt a fatal blow by none other than Goldar himself. She had the fire inside of her that had urged her to fight him, but when Kim died, that fire went out. Goldar got a lucky shot, and Kira died."

Everyone just sat there in silence. None of the space rangers actually knew Kira, but they knew enough about her. She was the only girl on the dino thunder team, and she was the spirit of the team. With Kimberly dead, and then Kira, it was no wonder that the twin's had come back to save everyone. Kim was the heart, and Kira was the spirit. They were connected by their gifts, and they died because of those same gifts. But because of the love and compassion of two teen-agers, who were still toddlers, they lived to see another day. As did everyone else. If Kira and Kim had died, every single person who had known either woman would have died a little bit. It had been for the good of everyone that those two had risked everything. And there was no way that they could ever be thanked.

"Earlier today, I thanked Ann for what she did, and later, I thanked David. Neither of them knew why I did that, but that knew that it was important. I would advise it that none of you ever mention it to them, they would never be able to understand it, even when they grow up and will probably eventually become power rangers, again." Zordon said. "Now, I must go. I know that all of you have many other questions, but now is not the time. You all need to go home and rest after celebrating such a momentous occasion. You will see me again soo, I know. And congratulation's Billy and Trini. May the power protect you."

With a flash of light, Zordon disappeared. They did not know where he went. They did not know when they would see him again, but they trusted him when he said that it would be soon.

With the flash, Ann and David stirred in their parent's laps. They had both fallen asleep long before. The party and the wedding had worn them out.

"Well, I guess we should be going." Andros said, indicating himself and the other space rangers. "There is enough darkness right now to cloak the ship."

All of the space rangers got up, and after wishing their congratulations to Trini and Billy once more, and after saying good bye to everyone else, they left for the mother ship which was hidden in a clearing inside the woods just on the edge of Tommy's property.

"We should go too." Adam said, pointing at himself and Tanya. "We are driving back to Angel Grove tonight."

"Next time we stop by, I will make sure that I bring those pictures for you Kim." Tanya called out as Adam guided her to the door.

"Ok." Kim called back, she couldn't wait to see the pictures they had taken at their wedding. Now, it seemed so long ago to her that she had first found out they were married.

Everyone else left slowly after that. Finally, the only ones left were the members of the Oliver-Hart household. It was nearly two in the morning, and the only thing that hadn't been cleaned up was the tent that had been put up in the backyard. All of the rangers had pitched in to help clean up after the reception was over. All of a sudden the phone rang.

"I'll get it." Kim said, putting Ann down on the couch. "Rocky probably got hungry and is calling to see if we have any leftovers for him."

Kim walked into the kitchen, wondering if it really was Rocky. Knowing him, it probably would be.

"Hello?"

"Um, hello." A voice said on the other end.

"Can I help you?" Kimberly asked, not really recognizing the voice with the thick Parisian accent.

"Yes, I am looking for a Ms. Hart?" The voice said.

"This is Ms. Hart."

"Kim? Finally. I just came into town today, and when I went to Angel Grove they said you hadn't been there for over two years. And they would only give me this contact number. I didn't even know who I would be calling."

"Um, ok. But who are you?" Kim asked, still with no recognition of the voice.

"What do you mean, 'Who am I?'? I am your mother. Who do you think is calling you?"

"My mother?" Kim said slowly, remembering something that Tommy had told her after she had woken up. Her face darkened. "I do not have a mother. Not any more anyway. She abandoned me, when that happened, I abandoned her. So, if you don't mind, I would appreciate it if you never contacted me again."

"How could you say that to me Kimberly? I am your mother." Her mother's voice said pleadingly.

"No, you stopped being my mother the day you walked out of that hospital room." Kim said.

"How do you even know about that? You were in a coma."

"That might be true, but you were the only one who abandoned me. Everyone else stuck by my side, and when I woke up, he told me everything. And you should be pleased to know that I am living a perfect life with my two wonderful children right now." Kim said in a menacing voice. "Besides, the fact that I was in a coma does not change what happened."

"You don't have any children." Her mother snapped.

"Oh yes I do. They are the reason you abandoned me. They are two years old, and I love them, and they love me. And while we are on the subject of love, I know you don't love me. You made that quite clear three and a half years ago."

"Fine, if that is how you want to live your life, I don't care. But just tell me one thing, and then, I will leave you alone forever, just the way you want me to." Her mother said.

"What?" Snapped Kim. She didn't want to talk to her mother ever again. She just wanted to know why her mother had called, and what she wanted to know.

"How long have you been awake?" The former Mrs. Hart asked.

"Since Monday, now, good bye, I have to put my children to bed." And with that final word, Kimberly hung the phone up on her mother, hoping that she would never come in contact with her again.

"Who was that?" Tommy asked, when Kim came back into the living room where he was sitting with the twins.

"It was no one. Wrong number." Kim answered smoothly.

"At this time of night? I wonder who they were trying to call." Tommy said.

"No idea. How about we go get these two ready for bed." Kim said picking Ann up again.

"Good idea Beautiful."

So together they went upstairs to put their two children to bed.

a/n-i added that phone conversation in so you could see how Kim really felt about her mother leaving her.