A/N: August 31 for those keeping track

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Chapter Nine: Gathering

A Cab Entering Angel Grove

Rocky DeSantos sat in the back of the cab, giving directions to Adam and Aisha's home. When he told Adam he wanted to come back, the couple was more than willing to open their home to him a couple of days. He was glad for this, he didn't know why but he felt he needed to be here and soon. I hope I'm not becoming a power ranger again. He thought to himself. He enjoyed his time as a power ranger, but now he was just too old.

The cab pulled up outside the Park home. Rocky paid the driver and walked up to knock on the door. Aisha opened the door. "Rocky!" She hugged her life long friend. She ushered him into the house and even picked up a couple of his bags to carry in.

Adam looked up from the table when Rocky walked in. He smiled, "Hey Rocko." He called. Rocky walked over and gave Adam a pat on the back.

"Have you seen anyone else worth mentioning since coming to town?" Rocky asked.

Aisha shook her head. "We've only been here a couple of days and have been busy trying to get settled in."

Rocky nodded. "I'll have to go search later."

"We'll go with you, Aisha and I need a break anyway." Adam said, he had yet to see any of his old friends.

Aisha nodded. "I wonder if Kim is back." She said, they had all expected her to come back after Pan Globals, but then she found some other guy and left Tommy, she didn't come back, to Aisha's knowledge, anyway, until the rest of the existing rangers retired.

"I haven't heard anything about Kim." Adam said. "Last I heard Tommy was in Reefside."

"That's not too far." Rocky said. "Maybe we should pay him a visit."

"I think we should look through the phone book and find everyone who is here." Aisha decided.

"They might even have information on people we can't find." Adam replied.

Aisha walked over and picked up the phone book. "We need a system to make sure we don't forget anyone."

Adam nodded. "Original rangers first."

Aisha began looking though the S's She found Jason Scott. "Here's Jason."

Adam smiled. "I wouldn't be surprised if Jason has information on everyone."

Aisha looked through the H's next, she just had to know if Kim was here. "I found her!"

Both guys looked at her wondering who 'her' was. "Trini or Kim?" Adam asked.

"Kim." Aisha responded. She decided to look up K's next. "I don't see Trini." She said.

"Maybe she's a Cranston now." Adam said jokingly. Though the three only knew Trini a short time before she left Angel Grove, it was obvious Trini and Billy had something for one another.

"C..." Aisha mumbled and began looking through the C's. "I don't know, but I did find Billy."

She flipped to the T's to look for Zack, but again she came up short. "Okay I'm going to look for Tommy then we will be done with the originals." Aisha said. She flipped to the O's and nothing. "Okay so we need to ask Jason, Kim and Billy what they know about Trini, Zack and Tommy."

"Okay, ninjetti." Adam said.

"Me, you two, Kim, Tommy and Kat." Rocky listed off.

Aisha flipped back to the H's and found nothing once more. "We'll have to ask about Kat as well."

"Anyone else?" Aisha asked, knowing the others were rangers longer.

"The only other one I was a ranger with was Tanya." Rocky said.

"Then Rocky's replacement, Justin."

Aisha began searching through the S's again for Tanya. "Nothing on her. What's Justin's last name?"

"Stewart." Came Rocky's reply.

Aisha stayed in the S's looking for Stewart. She shook her head. "Nothing."

"Who do we need to ask about now?" Rocky asked.

"Trini, Zack, Tommy, Tanya and Justin." Aisha replied.

She began dialing the number she wrote up for Jason.

"Hello?" Jason's voice.

"Hey Jason, it's Aisha."

"Hey Aisha, how are you and Adam?" He asked.

"We're good, Rocky's here too. We were looking for old rangers to see who was still or back in Angel Grove."

"If you three are, then most of us are." Jason replied. "I've heard that Kim and Tommy are in town, but I haven't seen them. I will today though." Jason was still confused about why Audrey wanted this emergancy meeting. "I've seen Billy and Trini." He added. "and I've now heard from the three of you."

"Trini and Tommy are in town as well." Aisha relayed to the guys. "What about Zack?" She asked Jason.

Jason thought for a moment, nothing on Zack. "Nope."

"Okay, we're still short on Zack." Aisha told the guys. "Can you give me contact info on Tommy or Trini?" Aisha asked.

"All I know about Tommy is he's teaching at the high school. He and Kim might have talked today, but if they did or didn't, I don't know. I'm supposed to meet with them both later though, I can get something then. I have Trini's number as well."

"Why are you meeting with Kim and Tommy?" Aisha asked.

Jason shrugged. "Some new girl in town says she needs to meet with the three of us and that it's important."

"Interesting." Aisha said. "Okay, what's Trini's number?"

Jason gave her the number and they ended the call.

"Okay now we just need to find out if anyone knows about Zack, Kat, Tanya and Justin." Aisha said. "Who were the rangers when Justin was?"

"Me, Tommy, Kat and Tanya." Adam listed.

"Okay, we'll have to ask Tommy about him then, Tanya and Kat as well." Aisha said.

They made a few more phone calls and actually heard from Kim that Kat returned to Australia three months before. Apparently that was the only reason Kim was in town now. They still didn't have a number on Tommy or information on Tanya, no one knew if Zack was in town either. Billy had told them that Justin was in college somewhere, but he couldn't recall where.

"Don't you find it odd that everyone is gathering in Angel Grove?" Rocky asked. "Short of Zack we have the full original and ninjetti teams before Kat."

Aisha glanced at Rocky warily. The last thing she needed was to become a ranger again. "Shush." Aisha said.

Adam shrugged. "I seriously doubt they would call on retired rangers to become new rangers."

Youth Center

Zack Taylor dropped his bags off at his new apartment then walked over to the youth center to see if he could find anyone he knew. He saw Trini and Billy over at a table. He thought about not disturbing them, but he decided to at least say hi to his old friends. "Hey guys." Zack said.

Trini smiled and looked up. "Zack!" She said, jumping up to give her old friend a hug. "If only Aisha called later."

"Aisha called you too?" Billy asked.

"Yeah, she, Adam and Rocky were looking for former team members to see who all was here."

Billy nodded. "Yeah she told me that too. She asked about Zack, but I didn't know anything."

"So who all is here?" Zack asked.

"With you here, apparently everyone minus Tanya and Justin."

"And Kat." Trini said.

Billy nodded.

"I don't know any of them." Zack said.

"Neither do I." Trini replied. "Those are the people they're missing though."

"Yeah, I told them what I knew about Justin, which isn't much."

"So who are they?" Zack asked.

Billy found himself explaining the three former rangers to Zack like he did Trini. "After you guys left, the next to leave was Kim. Kat was her replacement as the pink ninjetti. Aisha was the next to leave and Tanya replaced her as the yellow zeo. Rocky next and Justin replaced him as blue turbo."

"Wait, weren't you blue?" Zack asked, confused. He thought Rocky replaced Jason as red.

"Zeo only had five colors. Pink was Kat, yellow was Tanya, blue was Rocky, green was Adam and red was Tommy. I stayed to help as a technical assistant."

"Okay. I see now." Zack said. "So other than the three people I don't know, everyone else is here?"

Billy nodded. "Affirmative." He said. "I have yet to see anyone besides you, Trini and Jason though."

Zack shrugged. "Don't you guys think it's odd that so many former rangers are gathering in town? Nevermind the fact this is home to most of us, if people move away, don't they usually stay away?"

Youth Center, same time, different table

A few tables over, Conner McKnight and Trent Fernandez sat down, takling. "Why are we here exactly?" Trent asked.

"Dr. O teaches at the high school now." Conner said. When a conversation about former rangers hit Conner's ears, he listened. He nudged Trent. "Look over there."

Trent followed Conner's gaze. "I bet I can identify each of them." Conner said. "Trini Kwan, original yellow. Billy Cranston, original blue and ninjetti blue. Zack Taylor, original black."

Trent shrugged. "Are you sure?"

"The one I am sure is Zack just made a comment about former rangers." Conner replied.

"I don't think we were supposed to hear that." Trent replied, knowing it was best to even keep a former identity secret.

"Maybe not, but we did." Conner replied. "I'm going to go talk to them, you with me or not?"

Trent sighed and stood up. They walked over to the older three. "Hey you guys look really familiar and I just wanted to make sure I'm not mistaken." Conner said.

"If you are, how are you going to explain knowing the names." Trent whispered in Conner's ear.

"Old friends of Dr. O." Conner whispered back.

The three looked at the new people at their table. "I don't think either of you look familiar in any way." Trini said.

"You're Trini Kwan." Conner responded.

Trini looked shocked. How did they know her?

"And you're Billy Cranston."

"Okay, this is creepy." Trini whispered to Billy.

"You're Zack Taylor."

"Okay, so you know us." Trini told Conner. "Who are you?"

"I think it's best not to say here." Conner said. "We overheard you from there."

The five walked outside and into a secluded area. Conner nodded to Trini. "Original yellow ranger." Then to Zack. "Original black ranger." Finally to Billy. "Original blue and ninjetti blue ranger."

"How did you know all this?" Billy asked.

"Conner McKnight, Red dinothunder ranger." Conner extended his hand. "That's Trent Fernandez, white dinothunder."

They shook one another's hands. "I don't think I've heard of you guys." Billy said, he usually kept up with the different rangers to run through Angel Grove.

"We hail from Reefside." Conner explained. "We came here to visit a former teacher of ours."

"Tommy." Billy said.

Conner nodded. "Tommy Oliver, original green, original white, ninjetti white, zeo red, turbo red and dinothunder black." Conner rattled off.

Billy looked at him in shock, first that he knew all of this and second that Tommy had been a ranger again.

"Black's my color!" Zack exclaimed. All three original rangers laughed.

"He hasn't touched blue yet." Billy said happily.

"Or yellow." Trini replied.

"I'd like to see him in pink." Zack added. "Guys, this makes it more weird. Not only are the original group of rangers showing up, home... other former rangers who aren't even from here are showing up."

Billy nodded. "Something could be up."

A/N: Okay, this chapter was solely to get the others involved in the story. Now, which of my former reviewers was right? Do you have evidence supporting your guess? I don't have prizes for the people who are right. I just want to see who all has been paying attention. The answer should be revealed in the next chapter, but don't hold me to this. Read and review people please! Lots of reviews!