"MOM!" Kimberly gasped. "I must be dreaming."
"If you're dreaming, then so are the rest of us. We see her two." Zack mentioned.
"You can't be real, you can't. I was there. It's not possible." Kimberly cried.
Tommy stepped up behind Kimberly rubbing her arms.
"IT IS TRUE KIMBERLY. CAROLINE IS STILL ALIVE, TO A POINT."
"So you can come home and we can be a family again; you and me." Kim smiled giving her mother a hug.
"No Kimberly, I can't. I am alive, as long as I stay here. I can only leave this building to go for a walk in the dessert. If I go back to Angel Grove, I will die." Caroline explained.
"But how? Why?"
"Zordon saved my life after I was taken by the coroner. His magic saved my life, but it also links me to the Command Center."
"I still don't understand."
"KIMBERLY, WHEN I WAS ALERTED TO GOLDAR BEING IN YOUR HOUSE THAT NIGHT. I OBSERVED YOUR MOTHER GETTING IN BETWEEN YOU AND THAT GOLD DUST. I ALSO SAW YOUR MOTHER CRASHING THROUGH THE GLASS TABLE; I MADE A DECISION TO SAVE HER LIFE. IF SHE WOULD COME AND WORK FOR ME. AS SHE STATES THE MAGIC USED TO SAVE HER DOES LINK HER TO THE CHAMBERS." Zordon explained.
"But why did you save her with your Eltarian magic?" Billy asked.
"BECAUSE KNOWING THAT HER DAUGHTER WAS A RANGER, THANKS TO GOLDAR, SHE INTERVENED TO PROTECT ONE OF MY RANGERS AND THAT INTERVENTION COST HER, HER LIFE."
"Ranger, or no Ranger; Kimberly is my daughter and I couldn't let that gold monster take her. Especially after she mentioned to him that she wasn't going to let him use that dust on her again. All that matter to me that night was my daughter's safety and it still is all that matters to me." Caroline told the rest of them.
"CAROLINE NEEDS SOMETHING TO DO SINCE SHE IS BOUNDED HERE AND SHE IS A REGISTERED NURSE. I THOUGHT SHE WOULD BE USEFUL IN LOOKING AFTER MY RANGERS AND THE INJURIES THAT THEY RECEIVE IN BATTLE." Zordon informed.
To this all the Rangers grunted, but maybe just maybe a register nurse could do a better job than a robot.
"So how bad is it?" Caroline asked the Rangers.
"Just some sore muscles and a few bruises." Billy replied when it looked like no one else was going to answer her.
The teens immediately went on the defensive, especially Jason and Kimberly.
"For the most part the Powers do protect us in battle, but the battles have a tendency to get very intensive. Considering what is thrown at us during a battle, we are very lucky to walk away from it with just a few bruises and sore muscles." Jason explained quickly to a woman he has known all his life.
"Alright then shall we get started?" Caroline asked picking up the bottle of ligament.
The Rangers groaned but decided to just get it over with.
"Bro, you are the leader; you can go first." Jason suggested to Tommy.
"I just became the leader, why don't you go first." Tommy argued back.
Caroline, Zordon and Alpha just smiled at the Rangers attempt to get out of it.
"Alright, let's get this over with." Tommy replied taking off his jacket revealing a white tank top and sat down on the examining table.
Caroline put on a pair of gloves and rubbed the ligament all over Tommy's shoulders. He then lifted up the back of his shirt so that she could put it on his back. Jason went next followed by Zack, Billy and Trini. Kimberly went last.
"RANGERS YOU SHOULD BE GETTING HOME, BEFORE PEOPLE START WONDERING ABOUT YOUR WHEREABOUTS." Zordon mentioned.
"Mom, I want to stay here with you." Kim said hugging her mother.
"I'm sorry Kimberly, you can't do that. You have to live in the real world and I have to live here. Kimberly, go back to Care-Bear and Morgan. Don't fight the adoption, accept it. Don't worry, you will still see me, whenever you come here and whenever you do the whole Ranger thing." Caroline replied.
"This is all my fault, you died because of me." Kimberly cried.
"No, it is not your fault. Even if I knew what the outcome would have been, there is nothing I would have changed. But like everything else that deals with the Ranger world, you have to keep me a secret. Out there in the real world, I am dead. You all have to keep it that way. Jason, go home and take your new sister with you." Caroline demanded.
Jason grabbed Kimberly's arm and she waved goodbye to her mother as Zordon teleported them out.
"Kimmy-cub, we need to go home." Jason told her when they arrived in the park.
Kim nodded sadly and followed Jason back to her new home, across the street from her old home.
Jason opened the door to their house. He was instantly met by his parents.
"Where have you two been? You should have been home hours ago!" Morgan yelled.
"We're sorry dad; Kim wasn't ready to come home after the funeral. So we were just hanging around the park." Jason admitted.
Kim looked down at the ground refusing to meet anyone in the eyes.
"It's okay, just next time you are going to be late, call so we won't worry." Morgan replied more calmly.
"Why don't you two go wash up for dinner. It will be ready in a few minutes. Oh and Kimberly we are having your favorite Raviolis." Karen said.
Kim looked up and gave a half-smile, "What kind?"
"Both meat and cheese. So why don't you go get ready for dinner." Karen replied giving her new daughter a hug.
Jason and Kimberly went upstairs to wash up. Jason let Kimberly have the bathroom first while he stood outside the door. After Jason took his turn to wash up, he stood with Kim in the hall.
"It just seems so weird. She is alive, but she is not. I can see her, but I can't." Kim whispered.
"You will see her there, as if you didn't spend enough time there already." Jason replied.
"What do you know about it?"
"I know that you were always there talking with Zordon. We all see Zordon as a surrogate father, but no one could care as much about him as you do. Probably because of that so-called relationship you have with your own father." Jason replied.
"Yeah, I suppose so. Even the weekends I'm at dads I still hardly see him. Some life right. I have a better relationship with our mentor then I do with my own father and my mother is now at the same place."
"True, but you will always have us and the rest of our friends and their parents too. You are not alone." Jason answered giving her a hug.