Michelle was walking a patient of hers to the door. At the counter talking with the receptionist, were her husband and Penelope. They were talking about a patient of Penelope's.
"Hey, what is up?" Michelle asked walking up to them.
"I was just informing Penny, that her patient made it through the surgery just fine." John said giving his wife a kiss.
"Why are they here?" Penny asked as she saw a whole bunch of teenagers walk through the front door of the hospital. One of them being her son.
Michelle and John saw the teens come through the door. The one in front was their son and he was carrying Kimberly. John rushed over to his son.
"I need a gurney over here!" John ordered.
A nearby nurse got a gurney and brought it over. Tommy laid Kimberly down on the gurney. John started to examine her, he saw the cuts and bruises, but they weren't something he has ever seen before.
"Thomas, what happened to her?" John asked his son.
Tommy and his friends exchanged looks; they hadn't come up with a plausible story yet. So they weren't sure how to cover up what had happened.
"Dad, will she be alright?" Tommy asked.
"I'm not sure, I need to know how she got hurt." John said.
"It was one of Rita's goons." Josie said out loud before she even realized what it was, she was saying.
Tommy gave his sister the evil eye.
"Rita's goons, what would they want with Kimberly?" Penny asked looking down at her step-daughter condition.
Again the Rangers said nothing and pretended they didn't hear the question.
"I will take her in and do what I can to help her get better. When I am done I want answers." John said looking at the teens standing there, but mainly Tommy and Josie.
John and Michelle took Kimberly into the emergency room to start fixing her up. They just weren't sure how to heal wounds that were inflicted by some Empress of Evil. In the waiting room the remaining Rangers, Josie and Jack were working on getting their story straight about what had happened without admitting that they are the Rangers.
Penelope had left to go to her office, to call Austin and Caroline. It will end up being a huge mistake on Penelope's part, but they are her parents and they have a right to know as to what happened.
An hour later
Austin and Caroline showed up at the hospital as Michelle and John were walking back to the kids. Austin and Caroline got into a huge screaming match over whose fault it is that Kimberly got hurt. They were blaming each other, even thought neither one of them was with Kimberly when it had happened. Tommy couldn't believe they were screaming at each other like this in the middle of a hospital waiting room. Jason just shook his head, he could believe that it was happening. It wasn't the first time; he had been a witness to their insane screaming match. Austin and Caroline continue to go at it, forgetting where they were and that they were not alone.
John who has had enough of the screaming going on between Kimberly's parents yelled loud enough to be heard over them. "You two quit screaming, this isn't the time or the place for that." He then turned to his son, "Okay Thomas start talking!" He ordered.
Tommy looked at them and decided how he was going to start the story that they had come up with.
"We don't know much." He started.
"Yeah, all we know is what the Power Rangers told us." Zack picked up.
"Which wasn't all that much; all they said as they handed her over to us." Jason added.
"Was to take her to the hospital." Billy pitched in.
"Then they were gone." Trini finished up.
The adults looked at the teens standing there trying to explain how their friend got hurt.
"Yeah right, that story has more holes in it then Swiss Cheese." Michelle told them letting them know that she didn't believe anything that just came out of their mouths.
The teens just looked at each other, they were really hoping that the adults would not ask any more question about what had happened to Kimberly. Tommy was just about to same something when Kimberly's mother spoke up.
"Is Kimberly okay?" Caroline asked.
"Whether or not she pulls through is now up to her. We can try to keep her comfortable, but we don't have the medicine or the knowledge to treat the wounds that were inflicted upon her, by the hands of Rita Repulsa's goons." John explained.
"Can I go see her?" Austin asked.
"It isn't even your turn." Caroline said getting in his face.
All it did was initiate another screaming match between them. Tommy and Jason sat down on the chairs and listened to them scream at each other. They hated hearing them go at it like this, but they were grateful it got attention off them and their holey story. Jason got up and motioned the others to follow him outside, so that they wouldn't have to listen to the screaming.
"Man, am I glad mom and dad don't fight like that." Josie stated
"Me too. Is it always that bad?" Tommy asked Jason.
"Yeah it is. They always fight like that when they are in the same room. Last time I heard them go at it like this was 8 years ago in the courtroom during their divorce. They fought like that in front of the judge, their lawyers and even their own kids." Jason explained.
"Doesn't anyone try to stop it?" Josie asked.
"No, because there isn't any point." Jason said.
"Maybe they will stop, if someone calls security on them." Tommy said.
"So will Kimbery really be okay?" Jack asked the Rangers.
"Man, being hit with Scorpina's sting hurts bad enough when we're morphed." Trini stated shaking her head.
"Yeah, but to have it done, without the protection of the powers. She must be in some serious pain." Zack said.
"You have been stung by Scorpina is it?" Josie asked her brother.
"Well yeah, it happens in battle. It is a sharp pain that goes through your body starting at the point where you got hit. After about 10 seconds the pain start to die down. After a minute or two, the pain is completely gone. That is when we are morphed. I have never been stung, when I wasn't morphed." Tommy explain.
"Because of Scorpina stinger, we were always morphed. This would be the first time we ever fought Scorpina while we were in civilian form." Jason tried to explain so that they would understand.
AN: I am not actually sure if they did fight Scorpina while not morphed. For this story, they were always morphed when in battle with Scorpina.
