Author: Jadelyn Tate
Story: Begotten
Characters: RJ, Kim
Disclaimer: I own no one, the idea of RJ and Kim being siblings is all Tara's over at PRU's, I'm just expanding it into a fic.
Summery: A Shark. A Crane. A Wolf. And you thought your family had issues.
TimeLine: Set after One Master Too Many
Author Notes: I made a couple videos for Begotten over at my YT account. Go forth and enjoy!


"Any idea what these are?"

Kimberly looked up curiously from where she was doing dishes. Casey and Theo had lugged up five small fed-ex boxes. Behind them, looking puzzled was her brother. She frowned and moved down to the main floor.

"Where are the girls?" she asked, wiping her hands on a cloth. RJ motioned down the stairs as Casey and Theo studied the boxes.

"They're finishing up the nightly cleanup," he told her as Casey studied the return address.

"They're from Lone Wolf Tech," Casey told them and Kim grinned. She knew what was in them.

"They're from Billy," she told them, settling onto a pink bean bag chair she had brought from Angel Grove the day after getting RJ back. Her father had taken off, saying something about work for Mao. Disgruntled at his not-so-surprising departure, Kim had dragged Fran and Lily with her to Angel Grove to get more clothes and other odds and ends she'd need if she was going to be serious about helping her brother.

"Billy?" RJ asked, looking at the boxes with renewed interest. Kim nodded, looking bemused.

"They're for each of you," she told him with a smile. Casey nodded as Fran and Lily made their way upstairs.

"The wipe-down is done," Lily announced as she and Fran flopped down in front of Kim. RJ snickered and Casey handed the girls boxes. While Lily looked surprised, it was nothing to look of shock on Fran's face.

"Billy isn't going to exclude you just 'cause you're not a ranger, Fran. You're a member of this team now," Kim told her and RJ nodded.

"Billy is big on gifts," he agreed. Kim snorted.

"You don't know the half of it," she muttered, thinking back to the number of gifts the original blue ranger had doled out since starting Lone Wolf Tech. "He was the one who helped finance Adam's dojo, my gym, Kat's dance studio, Tommy's Lab, Hayley's Café, Aisha's vet clinic, and Bulk and Skull's hotel."

"He helped finance Bulk and Skull's hotel?" RJ asked in surprise and Kim nodded.

"Turns out one of the reasons they stopped trying to damask us was cause they figured out who we were and couldn't bring themselves to do that to us," she told him and RJ just looked at her in surprise. He'd never spent a whole lot of time with the two former bullies and hadn't seen them after Kim left for Florida.

"It's a laptop!" Theo exclaimed in surprise, causing the two siblings to turn to the four teens. Each had opened their boxes, and multicolored wrapping paper surrounded them as each held a laptop in hand. Casey's was red, with the black outline of a stalking tiger on the cover, Theo's was blue with the black outline of a lounging jaguar and Lily's was yellow with the outline of a running cheetah. Fran's, on the other hand, was green with the outline of a closed book. While the three rangers had their names etched in black underneath their animals, Fran's name was located on the front of the book.

RJ's eyes lit up and he quickly grabbed the box for him. Kim just laughed as the five exclaimed over their laptops.

"Hey, what's this?" Theo asked curiously, unearthing a thin spiral bound sheath of papers. Kim grinned.

"That, my dear blue ranger is how to access AlphaNet," she told him. They all looked up at her in surprise. Kim grinned.

"In addition to all the normal functions of a lappy, each specialized laptop Billy sends out to rangers and allies can access the AlphaNet, which is basically a secure network for us. You have a specialized email within the network and chances are your address books are probably already updated with all the email addresses of each ranger. The network also has a special chat room for us all, a video conferencing system, and access to the Ranger Fan Website, which is where we get all fan emails," she told them. "You can also access the monster database from your lappy so if you come up with a monster that seems familiar but you can't figure out where, you can look and check that its not an old monster re-animated."

"Sweet!" Casey grinned, and the five scrambled to find outlets to turn their laptops on. Kim just grinned as she took in the four teens had grabbed the corners and RJ had manhandled his way to use one of the main floor outlets.

"It's asking for a login name and password," RJ called out questioningly. Kim smiled.

"The password will be 'may the power protect you'" she told them with a grin. "All lowercase, no spaces. You're expected to change it yourself. The login names should be your color and animal. Fran, RJ's, yours are probably written in your AlphaNet access pamphlets."

"Junglegirl," Fran read aloud with a giggle.

"Purplewolf?" RJ asked curiously and Kim just shrugged.

"Billy has an amazing memory—chances are he remembered your favorite color," she told him. "And since bluewolf, yellowwolf, lunarwolf, and warriorwolf are already taken…,"

"Got it," he nodded, turning back to his laptop.

"What's your login?" Casey asked curiously and Kim smiled.

"Pinkpteracrane," she told him with a grin. RJ looked up, an inquisitive look on his face.

"What's Tommy's?" he asked and Kim snickered.

"Originally it was greenlightning," she told him. "When he went dino man on us, though, Billy went in and changed it to blackdragon, despite Rocky and Jason's insistence that it should be blackchristmas."

RJ let out a bark of laughter.

"Woah," Casey breathed out a few minutes later. Kim glanced at him from where she was fiddling with her own laptop, pink with a black crane on the front.

"What?" she asked and he looked up, shocked.

"My inbox has fifteen emails already," he told her and she nodded.

"Probably former reds," she told him as Lily and Theo exchanged excited looks.

"I have a bunch too!" Theo grinned and Lily beamed at everyone.

"Me too," Fran's voice was slightly incredulous and Kim grinned at the flabbergasted girl.

"Who are they from?" she asked.

"DinoTechLady, GreenSamurai, Alpha5, Alpha6, Alpha7, Skullovitch, Bulkmeiyer, LightspeedTech, FlowerLady, PinkNinja, OrangeNinja, XtremeLady, AceReporter, GameReporter, NotaDinoMutant, PrincipalElsa, RockStore, VampQueen, Gatekeeper, SolarisKnight, Spencer, and Rescuer," she read off and Kim grinned.

"Almost all of them were allies, though a few I recognize as former rangers," she told her with a smile. She turned to RJ. "Yours will most likely be from mentors."


"Hey Pinky," Jason greeted his best friend. Kim pounced on him, jumping into his arms. The original red ranger laughed as those around the park just looked on in amusement. She had gone on her morning jog alone as the three rangers, Fran, and RJ were still amusing themselves with their new gifts. The four teens had been highly intrigued with the chat program, each having met various people as they popped in and out. Fran had actually spent over two hours chatting with Clare while Casey had been talking with various reds at once. Lily had taken great delight in chatting with Kira and Tori about being the only females of their teams and Theo had spent several hours discussing various ideas with Cam, Billy, Hayley, and Ethan. RJ had read his various emails and then went to Zen on whatever it was he'd been told.

"What are you doing here?" she asked once he had settled her back down. Jason shrugged.

"Heard what happened through the grapevine, got your email, came to see how you were doing," he told her with a grin. She smiled slightly.

"I keep arguing that I'm not Tommy but no one seems to agree with me," she told him as they began walking. Jason chuckled.

"I know your not," he told her with a grin. "I don't think we'll be seeing you in new spandex anytime soon."

"Thank god someone else agrees with me on that," she smiled. Jason chuckled again.

"So Tommy mentioned something about your dad?" he asked and Kim made a face.

"Turns out he's a Pua Zhua master of the Shark spirit," she told him grumpily. Jason gave a wry smile.

"Oh the irony," he replied and she snorted.

"Tell me about it," she sighed. Jason studied her for a minute.

"You haven't hashed things out, have you?" he asked and she shook her head.

"He took off before we could," she told him. Jason grimaced.

"Still doing the avoidance game, then?" he asked, knowing her family situation better than any of their other friends. Kim nodded.

"Though I don't know why; it's not like I don't know his major secret now," she said. Jason smiled slightly.

"He's spent years hiding it to find out it was all for naught," he pointed out, "Give him time to adjust."

"I know," she sighed. "I just want it over and done with."

"I bet," he grinned. Kim pushed him slightly.

"So whats up with you?" she asked and he let out a breath.

"Emily and I are officially over for good," he told her quietly. Kim gave him a sympathetic smile; he and Emily had been together off and on for the past several years.

"For good, for good?" she asked and he nodded.

"I realized a few things the last time around," he told her with a pained smile. Kim frowned.

"What do you mean?" she asked and he shrugged.

"I did love her, but not in the way she needed me too," he replied. "And more than anything, I loved the life she represented."

"And what kind of life was that?" she asked, somewhat knowingly.

"A life free of an inner ranger," he admitted. Kim smiled wryly. She knew intimately what he meant; she'd spent nearly ten years running from her inner ranger before realizing she couldn't escape her. Every one of the original rangers did, though some embraced their inner ranger quicker than others. She and Jason were the last ones to do so; even Tommy had accepted the fact he would forever be the Power's bitch.

"So what are you going to do now?" she asked and he smiled.

"I'm done traveling," he told her. "I'm gonna accept Adam's offer to teach at his dojo."

Kim beamed at him, "I think that's a wonderful idea," she told him with a smile. "Do you need a place to stay? You can use my apartment since I apparently ain't going back for the next several months."

Jason chuckled. "Thanks Kim, Adam offered to put me up till I could find a place but I'd rather stay at your place."

"Then its settled," she nodded. "While I work with RJ and the newbie's, you keep my apartment from going to the dogs."

"And you and I can visit often," he told her with a smile. She looked at him oddly and he smirked.

"Alpha has decided that the teleportation system can be used by the originals for more than just emergencies," he told her. She blinked at him.

"But what about the personal gain issue?" she asked and he shrugged.

"He said that it's not personal gain when it keeps all the rangers in touch and up to date on all the happenings," he told her with a grin.

"Devious little robot," she muttered with an answering smile.

"So, you're coming to dinner tonight with us all," he told her and at her confused look, he elaborated. "The original sixteen are meeting in Angel Grove tonight for dinner."

Kim grinned. "I am so there," she grinned. "I have to plan how to train the newbie's with Tommy, Rocky, Adam, Billy, and Aisha anyway."

"Don't you mean initiate the newbie's?" he asked knowingly and she grinned.

"That too."