DISCLAIMER: Nope not mine.
SUMMARY: Tommy's in a coma and starting to see what the Rangers life would be like if he had never been a part of it.
A/N: Once again, I have to send a shout out to Chylea. I've known for a while where I wanted this story to go I just wasn't sure how to get it there. Thanks to Chy for helping me find my way.
Mack and Jason crossed paths again in the lobby heading out to get something to eat.
"How's Tommy?" Mack asked.
Jason shook his head. "No change. I just don't know what else to do. I've been talking to him, begging him, even threatening. Nothing. We need Kim to wake up. She'll be able to bring him around. She always could."
Mack smiled. "I remember hearing about how she was when he was losing the green powers."
"She always stepped in to protect him or to pull him out of there while we covered them. I don't know what she'll do if he doesn't wake up." Jason hung his head. "I should have been more careful. I should have never told Billy the whole story without making sure that Tommy wouldn't hear every word of it."
Mack stopped and put his hand on Jason's shoulder. "Jason, Tommy would have heard the story eventually. It's just a question of timing."
"He should have heard it from Kim. Not me. And not like that." Pulling away from the rookie Ranger, Jason stormed off, furious with himself and more than a little mad at Tommy.
****
"Where are we now, Dulcea?"
"You know this place. It is the Command Center and this is the day when Jason, Zack and Trini leave for the Peace Conference, passing on their coins to Rocky, Adam and Aisha."
"Nothing changed there I see." Tommy was still so very certain that his friends were better off without him that he couldn't see the heartbreak in Kim's eyes that three of her best friends were leaving.
"Oh but it has. You see by this point, Kimberly knew that she would be trying out for the Pan-Global Games in just a little over a year. She's working very hard and that makes her being a Ranger almost dangerous. She's always tired and she can't focus in school. She's had more than one accident while learning to drive her mother's car." As Kimberly moved to hug her friends, Dulcea pointed out the limp that Tommy had already noticed and the wrap on her wrist. "She's hurt herself practicing but vowed that nothing was going to stop her from going for the Pan-Global gold."
Tommy shook his head. "Aww, Kim. Why are you doing this to yourself? You know better."
"She does. But no one has had the courage to stand up to her and remind her that they will love her no matter what. After all, the two of you never started dating."
"Okay, so maybe I helped her there. Once out of how many years?"
"I see that I must show you still more. But I warn you, Tommy, most of what you will see next is unpleasant."
"Show me, Dulcea. I want to know how everything turns out."
Dulcea sighed and nodded. It was no wonder the Falcon chose this young man. He was so stubborn, just like his spirit animal.
****
Andrew was dozing in his chair beside Kim's bed when the doe brown eyes fluttered open and she took in a deep breath.
Her uncle sat straight up in the chair at the sound taking her hand gently in his own. "Kim, are you okay?"
"Am I – am I in a hospital?"
He nodded. "Afraid so. You passed out and went into shock when you saw Tommy crash on the track."
"Crash? Tommy?" Suddenly, everything clicked for Kimberly. "Oh No! Tommy! He's okay, right?"
"He's --- he's ---" Andrew wasn't sure how to break the news to his niece.
"He's dead?" Her tiny voice broke Andrew's heart and he knew that he had to make sure that she understood.
"No, sweetheart. He's not dead." He saw her shoulders slump in relief. "He's in a coma. The doctor says that it's up to him now. All we can do is wait."
She sat up. "Uncle Andrew, I want to go down and see him."
"Let me call the nurse. They'll probably want to check you over before you go anywhere." He reached for the call button.
****
Dulcea led Tommy to another point in time. He watched as the powers were decimated. The tears running down Kim's face broke his heart as always. 'But I only ended up hurting her in the end.'
"Kim! Kim, no!" Tommy looked up. Jason came running up. He stood in front of Kimberly and wrapped his arms around her. "I've got her, guys." And just like that, Jason was the one holding Kim back from the burning Zords.
"Jason? Oh god, Jason! It's happening again. Just like before. They're gone."
"Come on, guys. We'll go back to the Command Center and see what Zordon has to say." The six teens walked away, Jason with his arm around Kimberly's shoulder.
Dulcea transported the two of them to the Command Center in time to see the team walk in. Billy went straight to the consoles and started looking at the wires that were hanging out all over the place.
"Aww man. What a mess."
"Come on, Billy. Give us some good news." Tommy remembered those words but this time they came from Jason's mouth.
"I wish I could. I mean we're talking about the Command Center's power core. I don't even begin to know how to repair it."
"Ay-ay-ay. I don't know, Billy. That could take centuries."
"Alpha, we don't have centuries." Kim's voice seemed almost flat, not at all her usual self.
"What about our Zords? Can you bring them back, Zordon?"
"I'm afraid not. Since the Command Center's power is nearly depleted, there is no way to revitalize your lost Zords."
"There's got to be something we can do." Aisha was always the one to try to find a way to correct a bad situation.
You could almost see Adam's brain working as he asked his next question. "Where did our powers come from in the first place?"
Zordon explained about the temple and Ninjor. When Rocky made the suggestion that the team try to find the temple, Zordon of course said that it was too dangerous. That was when Jason spoke up. "We've faced danger before. If there's even the slightest chance this temple exists, we have to take it."
"Jason's right Zordon. We can't just give up."
Alpha handed Billy the map and Zordon reminded them that Lord Zedd would try to stop them and that they had no powers to defend them. "Powers or not, we don't have a choice."
Zordon gave in at last and had Alpha teleport them to the Desert of Despair.
"Dulcea, I'm the Falcon. Jason can't take that from me, can he?"
"Ahh, but you forget. What you are seeing is a world where you were not a Ranger. In this world you spent most of your high school years in Angel Grove training to drive cars for your uncle."
"So far what you've shown me isn't all that different from what happened with me. I obviously couldn't have made that big a difference. Not if everything is pretty much the same."
"You will see, my young friend. You will see."