Disclaimer: My first venture into the Power Ranger Fandom. I do not own Power Rangers other than my OC's. There will be slash in here. You get to guess whom! There is also the element of time travel and there will be flashback chapters (just as a warning if things get confusing). Obviously I have no BETA so I apologize for any grammatical mistakes in advance. WARNING: SLASH (BOYXBOY) in this fic. Griffin will be traveling back in time to when the Thunder and Wind Rangers have already become a Team and Cam has already gained his Samurai Powers.
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QUICK RECAP
Flashback to Hunter's childhood
Hunter receives an announcement from his (foster) parents
Hunter meets Kimberly (PINK RANGER!!)
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Flashback continuing from Chapter 22
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"So Hunter what do you like to do in your free time?"
"I read."
"Anything else?"
"I ride my bike around the block. And I play videogames. Um… don't tell anyone but I like taking care of plants too. I don't know why but I have always found it relaxing. Sure I like playing in the park, but being outside in nature is enough for me. Nothing is better than just sitting under a tree while feeling a cool breeze on a sunny day. My mom is always teasing me how I have a greener thumb than both of my parents combined."
Kim burst out in a fit of laughter.
Hunter was crimson in response.
"Don't worry your secret is safe with me. I think we will get along just well Hunter. When I'm not shopping or hanging with my friends I garden too! I'm part of my school's gardening club!"
The two began to open more to each other. Each was showing a side to themselves that they were afraid of showing in public. Kim dropped her valley girl persona for a more down to earth and less perky one. Hunter stepped out from the shadows and acted lively and enthusiastic.
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End of Flashback
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"So Hunter what's up? I know this is more than a fashion emergency."
"Well Kim you see…"
"You aren't talking about Speedo's or swimming right? Because while fashion is my thing, that's more of Kat's realm of expertise" Kimberly kidded. "And besides from what I remember, you have too much junk to squeeze in those teeny and sad excuses for swim trunks."
Hunter turned the color of his Ranger gear.
"Well you see… how can I put this…"
"Hunter just spit it out."
"Well…"
"HUNTER!!"
Hunter knew better than to further enrage his friend.
"I'M A POWER RANGER"
Kim bounced up from her seat from across the table and came over to hug her friend. She was bouncing up and down and was full of life. All the color that had drained away from her face in suspense came back with a fury. A huge smile crept across her face.
"That's all?"
"What do you mean 'that's all?' You're the first person I have told. Even if my parents were alive I would still have told you first. Shouldn't you be questioning me? Or doubting my sanity and making fun of me? You are taking this way too calmly!!"
"Hunter you are such a blonde sometimes. Now tell me how did I dress in Middle and High School?"
"In Middle School you wore a lot of blue, pink, and white. Sometimes you dressed in purple, green or yellow too. Actually you wore a lot of colors now that I think of it. You were like a walking rainbow."
Hunter received a hard smack on the back of his head for that comment. He rubbed the back of his head before he continued.
"And in High School it was…" Then it dawned on him.
"You don't mean…"
"Yep! Dude, you are talking to Angel Grove's first Pink Power Ranger… Well technically first as I'm not sure how my time traveling has affected things. But either way I was Pink in the past either way you look at it."
Hunter sweat dropped.
"Well that's a relief."
"Last time I checked MAROON wasn't a color."
"FIRST OF ALL ITS CRIMSON!!" He began with a glare that would match Kim when anyone accused her of wearing salmon or magenta.
"Well I'm part of a Ninja School. My adopted brother and myself are the Navy and Crimson Thunder Rangers of the Thunder Ninja Academy. And there are four others. There is Cam the Green Samurai Storm Ranger. And also there's Shane and Tori the Red and Blue Wind Rangers. They have the power over Air and Water respectively… And then there's Dustin…"
"He's the first male Yellow Ranger or so I've heard."
"And how would you know?"
"You would be surprised what Tommy knows."
"You don't mean…"
"Yep he was a Ranger too. In fact he has knowledge on most of the Ranger teams up to yours. He knew about part of your team, but not all of it."
Hunter sweat dropped.
"A lot of my friends have been Rangers in fact. So any love interests…. Wait you introduced this Dustin fellow separately…"
Kim was putting the pieces together in her mind. She had a suspicion Hunter was gay and head over heels for Dustin, but she wanted to play with his mind. She loved him like a brother, and like any good big sister she wanted to play with his mind. Her sneaking suspicion about Hunter began years ago, but she never said anything.
"Wait. There were Green, Red, Blue, and Yellow Rangers. All standard colors. And then there are Navy and Crimson?"
"Yeah."
"So Navy is like Black…"
Hunter didn't like where this is going.
"OH MY GOD! YOU ARE THE FIRST MALE PINK RANGER!! I HAVE TO TELL THE OTHERS!! THEY OWE ME SO MUCH MONEY NOW!! I knew you had potential to be a Ranger, but to be the first 'Male Pink' is too good to be true!"
Hunter sweat dropped and was too embarrassed to respond. There was too much going on so his brain was on overload. The last few moments had been too much.
"I think I could die happy right now. My little student has followed his Sensei into Ranger-Hood. And more importantly you have followed the Path of Pink!!"
Kim collected herself after several moments and apologized.
"Sorry. That was too good to resist. But seriously dude things have changed. Only one girl and two 'odd' color choices in a single team. Let alone the Yellow being male and a female Blue. So why are you here? Besides to Out yourself as a Ranger. And to say you're in love with your team's Yellow."
"HEY I NEVER SAID THAT!" Hunter barked. "AND I'M NOT HERE TO OUT MYSELF IN ANYWAY!"
"Sure you aren't. But dude you are so head over heels for him."
"I'm not gay. Me and Dustin are just really good friends. Rivals on the track. We work together and click."
"But you never denied it! Err…. Well you did, but never underestimate female intuition, let alone the intuition of a Pink Ranger!"
"Fine!! I like Dustin, but I don't like other guys. Just him. And I didn't come here to announce that. I came here to ask for help."
"I KNEW IT!" Kim burst out as she jumped up and did a little "victory" dance around the room and Hunter.
"Don't mess with the queen of gossip here! Aisha may have had the biggest mouth, but I was the original gossip of the Rangers."
"Well let's start from the beginning…"
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Time skip. Hunter talks for a few hours about his relationship with Dustin, the bombshells related with Griffin, and everything else that has gone wrong lately.
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"Dude I'll see what I can do. Former Rangers tend to stick by each other in their time of need. A few owe me favors too."
Hunter gave a heartfelt smile.
"So when are you bringing him over to meet your 'big sister?' I mean we're practically family."
"Um… about that…"
"You're not telling me something."
"He's disappeared. Griffin did too, but like I told you he's sent text messages and emails since he vanished. And he told me before that if he vanished it was for his top-secret message. But Dustin vanished out of the blue without any contact."
"I know you are concerned. But you have to stay strong and hope for the best. Why don't you take a rest in my guest room while I make some phone calls. You're lucky I was only going to go grocery shopping. I still need to take tons of boxes out of storage and unpack."
Something clicked in her mind.
"Hunter didn't you say something about super cool ninja powers?"
"Yeah, why?"
Hunter did not like where this is going.
"If you can use your powers to get everything here and put away I'll help you with finding Dustin and even throw in a few free meals…"
She didn't even get to finish, as her keys and Hunter were already gone.
'He never even asked where the stuff was being held.'
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Time skip. Hunter returned several times with her boxes. There was and still was only one public storage place in all of Angel Grove so it should have been no surprise he knew where to go. Meanwhile Kim had many important phone calls to make.
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Kim dialed several numbers onto her Blackberry.
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'Pick up' she thought as the phone rung several times.
"Hello?" asked a distinctive female voice.
"Sorry about earlier, something's come up."
"What kind of stuff?"
"Colored Spandex kind of stuff."
"I understand" is what came from the other end.
"Can you be over in a couple of hours?"
"Sure."
"Don't tell anyone else."
"I'll see you then Kim."
'Click.'
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"Hey, it's Kim. We need to talk."
"What did you do now?"
"Nothing. But we have a colored spandex dilemma."
"Isn't swimming Kat's thing Kim?"
"I thought Pink's were supposed to be the ditzy ones."
"Har har Kim."
"I've emailed you a list of cleared individuals. I need you to gather them."
"That's a lot to ask" the male voice on the other end replied.
"My little brother has finally grown up."
"I thought Jacques was in France with your parents?"
"I'm not talking about 'Jacob.' I'm talking about the blonde one that followed me around like a lost puppy with its tail between its legs."
"What's Hunter doing there? He finally got a girl pregnant or something?"
"First of all that's not even funny and is wrong on so many levels. And secondly like I said before, it involves the Colored Spandex."
A distinct 'oh' was she received from the other end.
"What kind of trouble did he get into now with gymnasts?"
'Why do I work with idiots' thought Kim. "He hasn't run into trouble with gymnasts. Well aside from me" she joked.
"Then what was he doing with wrestlers? And no I am not talking about those fake TV ones. Did Hunter get caught with a college Greco-Roman wrestler or something? Did you have him place a spy cam in the locker room to make money? Did you…"
Kim cut the other person off.
"HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU!! THIS INVOLVED COLORED SPANDEX!!"
"YOU DON'T MEAN…."
"YEAH! COLORED SPANDEX! LIKE "COLORED SPANDEX!" COLORED SPANDEX!!"
"LIKE THE OLD DAYS?"
"THAT'S WHAT I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU FOR THE LAST FEW MINUTES!!"
"SORRY KIM! I'll see what I can do!" came from the other line.
When Kim heard the click she braced herself for another call.
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Several calls later Kim was at her wit's end. She was becoming quite overwhelmed. There were plenty of people who she count on as well as others who owed her favors or owed favors to some of the involved parties. Hunter owed her big time, but that was part of the responsibility of being a good big sister. She was going out of her way to help her little brother. While she didn't expect this level of trouble, she was up for the challenge. It had been quite a while since she had done anything of this magnitude, but she hadn't graduated college and pursued a career without any skills. Rangers stuck by each other through thick and thin.
'Hopefully this works or this will be seriously cutting into my sex life' thought Kim. 'For all I know Hunter could seduce every man I bring back here if he's still here." Kim shuddered. 'I have no other option now! My sex life is on the line. I have to make ONE FINAL call. There is a lot riding on this, but I have bigger fish to fry still' the brunette thought as she reached for her phone once more and unconsciously dialed a number.
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"Sorry but you've reached my voicemail. Leave a message at the beep and I will try to get back to you as soon as I can. Beep "
"THIS IS KIM. YOU BETTER GET BACK TO ME AS SOON AS YOU GET THIS OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY. PARIS SHOPPING SPREE WEEKEND KIND OF HELL TO PAY! FASHION EMERGENCY—SPANDEX CODE SIX! IF YOU DON'T GET BACK TO ME SOON YOU WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH EVERY INDIVIDUAL DRESSED IN PINK OR YELLOW AND POSSIBLY MORE! LOVE YOU BYE!"
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Kim was beyond pissed. It was the final one of the calls she had to make, but it was the most important. A few calls had already been successful, but there were a few people she had yet to be able to be in direct contact with. If she was going to help Hunter, she knew she needed every available hand possible. Things were going well for the most part, but the person key to her plan had yet to get back. The person had been MIA for a few days. And she was beginning to grow worried. But she didn't have time because she had much more pressing matters at hand.
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Author's Note
Short but cute chapter don't you think? I know the last few have been short, but they are fillers until the good things start up. Don't worry longer chapters are on the way and a fell bombshells and plot twists are on their way.
College life is good like usual, but the workload is really kicking my ass. I have more reading and writing to do each week than I have ever had to before. Even high school AP classes weren't this bad. I hope that all of you are keeping up with the story.
Sorry this is a few days late but I think I am coming down with a head cold or something. I really feel like crap. And is not being my friend at the moment with uploading… I apologize if there is any bad grammar but not feeling awake enough to do any major editing. I feel like death…
No poll for this chapter. Please Review and continuing to read. I hope it was as great as you expected it to be! I definitely had a blast creating a relationship between Kim and Hunter (NOT A ROMANTIC ONE YOU EVIL YAOI FANGIRLS!! ITS STRICTLY PLATONIC!!). I hope Kim seems as true to character as she does in my mind (Hunter too!). Feedback and Criticism are welcome.
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