Author's Note: I apologize for the length of time between chapters but I have come to realize that this story is not going at all the way I wanted it to. I will be taking a break to rewrite some things, I feel that it is all rushed and forced. I hope you all enjoy and will look the story up once I get everything straight.

Chapter 13

The screen went black and shouting filled the temporary base of ranger operations; nobody was quite sure what to make of the little girl that was apparently the daughter of the former space witch and even more unsure of the second pink ranger after hearing about the rift she had caused years before over the letter that was sent to Tommy.

While most of the rangers had tried to stay neutral due to having not known what Kimberly and Tommy's relationship was like or having known any of the rangers involved personally there were still a few of the newbies that felt they should have a say in what had happened and why.

Kimberly stood more determined than ever to get her fellow ranger and an innocent child out of the hands of darkness, "did you find where his signal is coming from?"

Andros turned his head towards the pink crane and frowned, "wherever his signal came from we can't seem to locate it. He has us blocked out."

"Find it, fast." Kimberly said before walking out of the building.

The other nine of Zordon's twelve frowned at Kimberly's behavior, they knew as well as she did that searches like the one for Ivan Ooze took time and patience.

"What gives? You just told her that there was a sort of signal trace block and she gets all huffy. Drama queen much?" Ronny, the yellow overdrive ranger scoffed.

Tommy sighed, yet again a ranger was questioning Kimberly's ability to lead and care about what happens to the people Ivan is holding hostage. Before he could react to the girl she was pinned to a wall held firm there by Tori Hansen-Bradley and Kapri Watanabe while his very own yellow and pink rangers stood angrily in front of her.

"Ronny, I like you okay? I know you are a good ranger, I've fought beside you. If you don't back off and stop questioning everything about Kimberly and her leadership skills I will personally see to it that you lose your powers. Each and every one of you that has a problem with Kimberly officially has a problem with me. I don't speak for my team but I stand behind Kimberly Ann Hart 100%." Kira said as she glared at Ronny.

"I stand beside Kira." Cassidy said with her arms crossed tightly in front of her.

"Kimberly has the backing of the whole Dino Thunder team."

"I just don't see what got her all worked up like that." Dax mouthed off.

Tanya had all she could take of it the mouthing off and stupid fighting. She stood and followed the original pink ranger outside. She wasn't sure exactly what she would say to the brunette in charge but she knew that if it were Aisha or Ashley in Katherine's place she would do anything in her power to get them back.

"Yes?" Kimberly said breaking her routine after an aerial flip.

"Sorry, Kim, you know we will get her back. It just takes time," Tanya softly tried to explain.

"Time...something those two may not have much of left. You saw what she looked like Tanya, if Ivan tries to hurt Annabelle Kat will intercede. It's in her nature."

Both girls went silent as images of the blonde australian bruised and broken filled their heads. Neither wanted to leave her there regardless of what she had done in the past. She was still a ranger and therefore one of them. If there was one thing that Kimberly and Katherine had in common it was the size of their hearts. Katherine wouldn't leave someone behind and Kimberly wasn't about to do it to her. What they needed was more fire power they needed the dragon…

"Tanya, does Jason still hold the dragonzord coin?" Kimberly asked eagerly hoping for a positive answer.

Tanya thought for a moment before nodding her head yes. Kimberly squealed and rushed back in the house and straight to the group of original rangers that were sectioned off from everyone else.

"Jason, you know I would never demand you had the coin over if it wasn't important but I need the dragonzord coin. Billy, I need you to teleport two people here without Ivan knowing. Can you do it?"

Billy nodded and Jason was confused but immediately reached into his back pocket and took out the coin that held so much pain for his brother in arms. Kimberly took the coin and walked over to Andros who was talking with the Dino Thunder rangers. She would need them to agree to this if it was to work.

"Andros, I need you to get the black dino gem from the vault while I talk to these guys. Okay?'

"Sure thing." Andros said before walking off to retrieve the aforementioned item from the ranger vault.

Kimberly turned around and looked at the five remaining dino rangers; she knew as well as anyone how hard it was to accept new people, with Kira and Cassidy already having issues she didn't want to put to much strain on their team but they needed a black ranger.

"Why do you need the black gem?" Trent inquired.

"I have an idea but I want you guys to know I will find an alternative if I must. The dino gems are linked to dna, right?"

"Yes, but it is linked to Dr. O's dna, therefore the gem will only work with him or someone who has almost identical dna. It's a similar concept to that of the Chrono morphers used by Time Force in the future." Ethan explained.

Kimberly nodded her understanding and her smile got even larger, if it would work the way the chrono morphers do then her idea would work out perfectly. She just had to wait for Andros to get the black gem and Billy to retrieve the two people she requested. Hopefully Tommy and the others would agree with the dragon. She went off in search of her team to try and get them to agree to this plan as well; her main concern was winning this war but she needed the teams to work together in order to do and if the team couldn't accept a member the team would fall.

She went to the lower level figuring that Jason and Tommy would at least be there working on some training for a while and hoped that the rest of the team was down there watching. When she heard Rocky's boyish laughter she knew they were all together except Billy who was doing what she asked.

"Hey pinkie." Rocky laughed as he saw her enter the room.

Kim rolled her eyes at the nickname but shrugged it off anyway. She walked over and hugged her boyfriend before turning to address the room, "guys, we need to talk."

"Uh oh, did something else happen? Another attack?" Jason said pushing off the wall.

Kimberly shook her head, "none that we have been alerted to. I need you guys to do me a favor."

"Anything you know that." Aisha said.

"I need the dragon coin…" Kimberly left the statement open for argument that she knew was bound to come up.

"Um, I'm sorry? Did you just say the dragon coin?" Zack questioned her as if she lost her mind.

"Yeah the dragon coin. Look, I know none of you like the idea but we need all the firepower we can get if we are going to have any chance of knocking Ivan on his slimy purple ooze covered ass and get our friend and that little girl back." Kim said fiercely.

"Kim, I know you want to beat Ivan but is the dragon coin really our best option?"

"Zack, you weren't here okay? You didn't see what he did in the short time his zords were unearthed. Most of the city was destroyed before we even made it back to Earth. I am not letting him win. Either agree or don't this is happening."

Zack took a step back, never had Kimberly spoken to her friends in such a manner.

"Kim…" Tommy whispered.

"Don't. Whatever you are trying to say to make this better just don't." Kim spun on him.

"Kimberly Ann Hart, stop it. I don't know what is going on with you but this beating yourself up over it isn't going to change anything." Jason snapped knowing that if Kim wanted to argue it would be with him.

"God! Would the two of you listen to yourselves? You didn't see the damage, neither of you know how it felt watching that screen and wondering if you would ever get to see your family again. That's what she is to me, regardless of what she has done in the past Katherine Lynn Hillard will always be my sister. Not only because she was a ranger but because she was a part of me. Zordon told me something before I gave up the powers, and I agree."

"The power wouldn't have worked unless the Crane felt her worthy." Tommy spoke up.

Zack looked at his former leader confused, "what do you mean?"

Tommy looked at his girlfriend and the others before trying to explain this was going to be a doozy. They all decided to sit on the training mats and try to figure everything out without a violent confrontation.

"Explain flyboy, what do you mean?" Rocky questioned his ninjetti comrade in white.

Tommy sighed, "I think what Kim is trying to say is something similar to the dino gems and chrono morphers someone matching dna has to link to the power."

Kim shook her head, "not quite, what I mean is that the morphing grid can reject someone but what we didn't know was that so can the ninjetti spirit animals."

"They can?" Adam asked confused at the news.

"Yeah, the great power chose us but when I left the Crane could have actually chosen to reject Katherine because she had been touched by evil and stolen the coin from its true owner."

While the others were digesting the news Kim approached Jason once more and held out her hand expectantly waiting for the dragon coin. Nobody else seemed to understand just how severe this war and that was her number one priority; winning this war.

Jason begrudgingly handed over the coin hoping this was the right thing to do. He knew his friend meant well but at the same time she tends to follow her heart and not always her head like a leader should.

Kim took the coin and informed her team that they needed to report to the main room in 20 minutes before she left the room looking for Billy and Andros to get the things she needed to get her plan rolling.

"Did you get it?"

Andros held out the black Dino gem for her to take when she shook her head and indicated that Tommy should be the one to hold it so it didn't try to merge with her DNA or anything. Once Tommy was in possession of the gem and the dragon coin was safely tucked in Kimberly's pocket until the arrival of her guests she sought out Billy to see how his part was coming along.

"Kim, are you sure that the dragon coin is safe? I mean what if Rita's spell still holds the coin?" Tommy inquired worried that his first power, his start would cause more harm than help in this war.

Kim sighed, "I know you are worried, honestly, so am I. If the spell still holds then the coin will not be used unless Rita can break the hold. I won't put you or anyone else in danger just for more fire power Tommy you know that. I want this war won but I will not chance the danger of the green dragon being loose all over again."

While Tommy, Jason and the others were concerned about the use of the dragon coin they trusted Kimberly's judgement. The one thing puzzling them was who Kimberly had in mind to take such a powerful coin.

"Kim, they just arrived. Perhaps though we should do this with just the teams it affects? To cause less disruption?" Billy suggested.

Kim nodded and all the rangers not directly involved in the current situation left the area. Billy signaled for two people to come from the shadows, Haley Ziktor and David Trueheart…

"Hello little brother." David said smiling at the confused expression on his younger brother's face.

"David and Haley? Billy, what is going on?"

Ethan and the Dino thunder rangers stepped forward, "don't be mad at them Dr. O, Haley and David were our idea. Since our team is without our black ranger and the dino gems link to dna we asked Kim to see if maybe David's dna was close enough to yours to use the gem."

"That explains David, what about Haley?"

"That was actually my doing. I talked to Kira before Kim sent out the call and she told us how much Haley had done for the Dino thunder rangers and I figured if she knew that much about the rangers then she should be given the chance to help any way we need. Right now we need a green ranger." Billy answered.

"You expect me to willingingly put my family in danger?" Tommy snapped.

David and Haley looked at each other then each slapped Tommy

"This is something we have already discussed in detail with each other and gone over the powers the coin and gem possess YOU won't be putting us in danger. WE are choosing this." Haley informed her friend.

"Haley, do you realize what that coin has done in the past?"

Haley nodded, "I am, but at the same time there is no guarntee that the coin holds the same dangers now. Tommy, I am doing this with or without your support."

David stepped forward, "Little brother, you must trust that we know what is best for us. We can't let Katherine or anyone else suffer at Ivan Ooze's hands any longer. Allow us to try and link to the powers. For the planet." He held his hand out for the black gem still held firmly in his baby brother's fist.

With a heavy heart Tommy handed over his most recent power source to his older brother. He silently prayed that the gem wouldn't link to David, this isn't what he wanted for his brother. He, himself didn't even want to come back to the rangers. He was done with it all and then Ivan showed his face again. Tommy watched as the black brachio ranger took over his brother and David was covered in the black ranger suit.

Haley stepped forward next and held her hand out also, "my turn."