Goldar was confused to say the least. He had just been fighting the power rangers back in Angel Grove and now he was Rita knew where in front of this dinosaur hybrid creature who was telling him that he needed his help. The gold armor wearing warrior looked around, trying his best to gain some insight as to where he was and if there was any way that he would be able to get out of there. After all his empress would not be happy that he just vanished in the middle of fighting their enemies.

"Why have you summoned me here?" Goldar asked pointing his sword at the creature in front of him.

"As I have said, there is a problem that I require your assistance with so I brought you into the future," Messagog replied in a 'respectful' manner, "like you I have ranger problem and I want you to destroy them."

"And why should I help you, they are not the ranger team that I am sworn to destroy," Goldar taunted with a laugh, "if you're having ranger issues then deal with them yourself."

This was not what Messagog was expecting. He knew that Goldar was extremely loyal to Rita Repulsa but the fact that he was refusing to destroy his team of rangers simply because they were not the team going up against Rita irked him. He had to be quick on his feet if he was going to coerce the gold and blue warrior, and the perfect idea popped to the forefront of his mind as he recalled a very important fact.

"If you help me then you'll have a chance at destroy Tommy Oliver," Messagog promised walking behind him and leaning into hiss into Goldar's ear, "once and for all."

"Tommy, what is the white ranger doing here?" Goldar asked suddenly interested.

"Oh he no longer wears white, he has taken up a few colors since your team of rangers," the dinosaur hybrid explained walking back in front of him, "he is now currently the black ranger of the team who defies me."

Goldar stood there, his sword still pointed at Messagog, and mulled over what he had just learned. Tommy Oliver, the white Mighty Morphin Power Ranger and one who normally gave him trouble, was still a ranger and was now helping this new team. But if that was true then that meant that his empress had lost and Zordon was successful, that meant he had lost in combat to the rangers. This wouldn't do, he had to make sure that his empress won, and that meant he had to get back to Angel Grove to assure that he destroyed the rangers.

"I have my own rangers to deal with," Goldar said reasserting himself, "so you will send me back so I can deal with them and my empress will reign supreme."

"Hm, this is becoming most….troublesome," Messagog hissed tapping two of his claws together, "but what if I were to sweeten the deal?"

Elsa walked back into the room at this moment, doing a double take when she saw the warrior standing there. The two looked at each other and Elsa glared at him, skirting around the room until she came up to her master and held out a folded up piece of purple velvet to him.

"I have gotten what you have asked for my lord," Elsa said, keeping her eyes trained on Goldar.

"Thank you Elsa," Messagog replied as he opened up the piece of velvet.

Within the velvet, Goldar noticed, was a clear round cut gem that gleamed in the light as the dinosaur hybrid took between two of his claws.

"This Goldar is a Star Shard, a piece of meteorite that impacted the world in the time of the dinosaur that did not bond with the DNA of any of the said dinosaurs," the mastermind explained turning to face the warrior, "help me and I will allow you to use the powers that you take from the rangers here to destroy your rangers."

"Wait what?" Goldar asked confused.

"This shard has the power to take the energy of the rangers," Messagog told him with a twisted smirk, "we were waiting for the perfect time to use it against the rangers but now is as good as time as any."

This was too good to be true, and Goldar wasn't sure if he should believe the dinosaur hybrid, but if he was right then this would be more than enough to destroy not one but two teams of rangers. Not only that but he would be able to watch as he destroyed Tommy twice as well. It took him only a second before he lowered his sword, Elsa raising an eyebrow as Goldar took the Star Shard.

"Very well I'll destroy these rangers for you, but I better have your word that I can use this against the team that I am facing," Goldar ordered glaring at Messagog.

"You have my word, now then go to the city and cause some chaos, the rangers will show up in due time," Messagog promised as Goldar turned to leave.

Watching the warrior leave, Elsa couldn't help but frown as she turned to Messagog and gave him a look of confusion.

"Master you can't be serious about helping him destroy the rangers in the past," she said as Messagog walked over to his computer.

"Oh I am Elsa," Messagog replied turning on the surveillance cameras, "however I do not plan on that space witch taking over Earth, instead I will go back in time and destroy her leaving the way open for me to take over."

Tommy was sitting on his couch, a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the other, enjoying the quietness of the morning. His fellow past rangers had shown up when he had expected them to and they spent the last night talking and catching up, trading stories some of the more comical times of when they were rangers as well. He was happy that they were there, enjoying their company, but something was bothering him as well as he talked to him. Kim was there but it seemed that something was on her mind the entire time that they were sharing stories, and her eyes kept wandering over to a picture that he had of the Dino Thunder team after Trent had joined them. Kat, for some reason, also seemed to be keeping her eyes on the original pink ranger as if she knew what was going on in her head. The ranger of four colors wanted to talk to the original pink, try to see if he would be able to help her, but whenever he felt that he got a chance something else would come up. They had finally all decided to turn in for the night and he was almost certain that he would be able to talk to her but he knew that they three of them were more than likely tired from traveling.

'I need to remember to talk to her about that today,' the black ranger thought as he set his cup down on the table, 'or at least try to figure out a way to talk to her about that soon, I hate to think that something is wrong.'

Shaking his head, the veteran ranger went back to reading his paper when he felt something bounce off the back of his head making him frown and turn around to see who was there. There was no one standing behind him however and Tommy narrowed his eyes before turning around and reaching for his coffee again only to see that was missing now.

"What the hell," Tommy muttered looking for his cup.

He soon found it in the hands of a certain pink ranger sitting in the recliner next to the couch with a small grin gracing her feature.

"This is some good coffee," she teased taking a sip from the cup.

"Thank you," the black Dino Thunder ranger replied taking the cup from her, "you're welcomed to go get yourself a cup."

"Why Mr. Oliver I figured a good host like you would offer to get his guest a cup of coffee."

Tommy laughed, happy that it seemed to Kimberly he knew back when they were teenagers was finally coming to the surface. His laughter caused Kim to giggle as well, the two soon laughing so hard that Kim almost fell off the chair she was sitting.

"Okay okay, let me go and get you a cup of coffee," Tommy offered, standing up and walking into his kitchen.

Kim sat there in her chair, looking around the room once more as she waited for her drink to arrive. It was at this time that her eyes landed on the mantelpiece above the fireplace, two pictures sitting on the slab of stone. Standing up the original pink ranger walked over to the fireplace and looked at the two pictures, the one of the left was very familiar to her as it was a picture of the past ranger team after the martial arts tournament that Tommy, Adam, and Jason participated in after the team got their Turbo powers. Though it was the second one that caught her eyes, a picture of the new team of rangers. Tommy was in the center of the picture, to his left was a dark skinned boy wearing blue and a boy in white, to his right was a rather tall looking boy with shaggy brown hair wearing a red t-shirt, his arm wrapped around a smaller blonde haired girl wearing a yellow blouse and skinny jeans. Her hand twitched, lifting up to reach for the picture, and as she touch the glass of the frame she traced the outline of the boy in red as she felt her heart start to beat faster.

"You're running out of time Kimberly," Kat said from behind her, making the original pink ranger jump.

"Kat! You scared me," Kim gasped placing her hand over her chest.

"I can see that, but I return to my statement that you're running out of time," the second pink ranger repeated, folding her arms over her chest.

"I…I can't do it Kat, he has a family and I can't take him away from that," the mother pink replied turning away, "I had my chance and I gave it up, I don't deserve to be part of his life."

"Do you really think that's just your decision to make? What about them Kim, don't you think that they both of a say in this?"

The original pink ranger winced and looked at the ground, knowing very well that Katherine was right. She came here with a plan and every time that she had a chance to talk to Tommy she had chickened out and started to talk about something else. She hated this, having this feeling of fear was something that she had only felt once before in her life, and it was after her run as the pink ranger. Sighing, Kim sat down and shook her head wanting nothing more than to crawl into the ground and hide from her problems, again something she was hating that she was feeling.

"No it's not, but honestly Kat do you really believe that they'll forgive me for that, or ever want me in their lives for hiding this?" She asked in defeat.

"I don't know Kim, I really don't," Kat replied sitting next to her and giving her a hug, "but don't you think it would be better if they knew."

"How can I tell them that Kat, it's not like I can just walk up to them and say 'hey Tommy guess what when we were younger I got pregnant with your child, and guess what else he's the current red ranger to the team you're helping.'"

"What?"

Kim froze in place, the very voice that she did not want to hear at the moment ringing through her ears. Trembling, she looked over her shoulder and saw Tommy standing there with two cups of coffee in his hands, his eyes wide as he looked at her.

"Kim what did you just say?" He asked walking over to them.

"I…I…I…"

Jason walked down the stairs at this moment, his hair messed up as he had just woken up, and looked at his three friends, taking notice quickly that something was off. Jumping into action quickly, something that came with being a ranger, he stepped in between the two past rangers and held out his hands, placing one on Tommy's chest to stop him.

"Whoa there bro, what's going on here?" the original red ranger asked frowning.

"Don't know trying to figure that out myself," he replied looking at Kim, "what do you mean you were pregnant with my child."

"Wait what?" Jason asked turning to face Kim, "You were pregnant with Tommy's kid?"

"…Yes, it was after the space rangers save the world and we all got together to celebrate," she explained with a sigh, "when I found out I was so afraid of what you would think that I kept it to myself, only one other person outside my family knew."

"Why did you keep this to yourself Kim, I could have helped you," Tommy said pushing pass Jason and walking to her so that he was right in front of her.

"Like I just said I was afraid of what you'd think, and it's not like you were easy to get a hold of even if I wanted to tell you," Kim retorted glaring at him, "after the party you just fell off the face of the Earth, the last thing I heard about you before finding out you were a ranger again was from Kat after she called to tell me Jason went on an all red mission."

"I, we, how did you even know about the all red mission?" he asked looking at Kat.

"I may or may have not been staying with Jason at the time."

Tommy and Kim looked at their two friends, Jason rubbing the back of his neck as Kat gave them a neutral look.

"We'll talk about how that came about later for now I want to know this," Tommy said turning back to Kim, "so what I understand is that you had our child, and said child is now the red ranger of the current ranger team."

"Even when I put him up for adoption I still kept an eye on him," Kim explained, relaxing now that it seemed that Tommy was starting to calm down, "not like a stalker would but if he came up on the news I would read or watch the article, just to make sure he was okay."

"You said that someone outside of your family knew you were pregnant, who was it?"

"That would be me," Kat answered placing her hand on Kim's shoulder, "she came to me one day, in tears, and told me what happened, she was so upset about what happened and how she was going to handle it she just needed someone to talk to."

Tommy sighed, rubbing the back of his neck as he looked at Kim, then to Kat, and back to Kim. He was trying to wrap his head around what was going on here, trying to wrap his head around the idea that he was a father to the young man in red who was over here more often than not. He knew that Conner was adopted, having looked at the rangers' files after they became a team, but something else pulled at the back of his mind as he recalled something else.

"Wait a second, you had twins?"

"What, no I only had a baby boy," Kim replied frowning, "why would you think I had twins?"

"Because Conner has a twin brother, so what you're saying isn't adding up," Tommy explained raising an eyebrow.

"Look I know how many kids I had to push out of me, if I had more than one I would remember that," Kim said shaking her head, "I went to the orphanage after he was adopted so that I could get some information on the family in case I wanted to ever meet him, so I know that Conner McKnight is our son."

"It's still not adding up Kim," Jason said frowning, "I mean if he has a twin then maybe you have the wrong boy in mind."

Kim growled, literally growled, and it was Kat who had to step in before they boys said something that was going to push her over the edge. The second pink ranger knew that she was right, she had been there when Kim originally put Conner up for adoption and asked that her information be kept from him for safety reasons, reason that the people who ran the orphanage didn't understand but that she did perfectly.

"Look you two, before Kim breaks you in half, just know that I was the one she came to when she found out she was pregnant, I was there when she gave birth to and named her son, and I was there when she gave Conner up for adoption," Kat said glaring at them, "so I can attest to him being Kim's son, the fact that the McKnights had a boy that looks just like and is the same age as Conner is a one in a million chance but it's still there."

Jason looked over at Tommy, the black ranger looking like he was about fall down and placed his hand on his friend's shoulder to comfort him.

"They're right you know, just read an article about how there's a good chance that somewhere in the world there's someone who looks like us," the original red ranger said with a shrug, looking back at the girls, "Kat why don't we go get breakfast started and let these two talk."

"Coming dear," Kat said following her boyfriend out of the room.

This left the two past rangers in the living room alone, pink and white standing there wondering who was going to go first. It was finally Tommy who broke the silence, speaking what was on his mind.

"I know that you were afraid, but you could have told me," Tommy said with a sigh, "I would have been there."

"I know and that's what frightened me the most," Kim replied with tears in her eyes, "I didn't want to get in the way of your education Tommy, you had just gotten into college and I knew that you were going to do big things."

"You would have never gotten in my way," Tommy said grabbing her upper arms, "Kim nothing dealing with you would have gotten in my way."

Kim cried, harder than she had ever cried before, and clung to Tommy as he held her close to him. Stroking her hair, Tommy kissed the top of her head and let her cry as he silently did what he could to comfort her. After a few moments of crying she finally pulled away and wiped her eyes as the black ranger grabbed a nearby box of tissues and handed it to her, Kim blowing her nose and tossing the used tissue to the side.

"Thank you Tommy I needed that," she whispered, "so what do we do now?"

"I don't know beautiful we'll have to figure that out," he replied with a sigh, "I think we should tell Conner what we know first, he deserves to know."

"I…I agree, honestly this is why I wanted to come here, so that I could finally face my past and hopefully at least start some sort of relationship with my son if he will allow it."

"I think Conner would be excited to know that you're his biological mother," Tommy said with a smile, "and I'll do what I can to help Kim, I'm not letting you do this alone."

Kim smiled but frowned when she heard a beeping noise and Tommy held up his bracelet. Smirking at her, he flicked his wrist and activated his morpher for show before hitting the communication button.

"Hayley what's up?" he asked raising an eyebrow.

"Hate to do this to you Tommy, especially when you have your friends over, but there's something here that you need to see," the Dino Thunder tech advisor said.

Confused, Tommy walked over to his desk and pulled down on the jaw of the miniature t-rex, Kat and Jason walking in to see what was going on. The stairway appeared and the black ranger walked down them, his friends following him and Kat jumping when a yellow raptor nipped at her when they reached the bottom.

"Don't worry they won't hurt you," he said sitting down in his chair, "now then let's see what Hayley was talking about."

Going through the videos off all of the cameras that he and Hayley were able to hack into, he finally found what she was talking about. The other three looked over his shoulders and all their eyes widening as they saw who was attacking the town.

"T-that's impossible," Kat whispered as she took a hold of Jason's hand.

"He shouldn't even be alive," Jason growled, shaking slightly.

"Tommy please tell me that's not…"

"Sorry beautiful but it is," Tommy groaned, taking his glasses off, "somehow Messagog managed to bring Goldar here."