Destinies Collide

By Lexie


Tawni got into her living room, panting and resting on her hands on her knees. She didn't know how she got to her home so fast from the park or why she was so out of breath.

Kerry looked up from whatever she was doing to look at her sister. Her eyebrows perked up when she saw her sister in this unusual state. "Care to tell me now what the heck is going on? Don't try the whole 'Well You'll understand when you're older crap.' It's not flying with me anymore."

"Can't...Breath...Need...Mom...and...Dad," Tawni panted out.

"Downstairs...in...the...dojo," Kerry imitated her sister. Kerry was tired of Tawni not having to justify her actions where as she and Karen had their every move calculated and question. Yet Tawni could disappear whenever she wanted. Tawni could even skip school, go off to another country and get married.

Kerry didn't dislike Jayden, she adored him. Jayden was like a brother she never had. She had tons of male role models in her life but none where as brotherly as Jayden. So she thanked her lucky stars that when Tawni came back home for Japan with a ring on her finger, that the ring belonged to Jayden.

But even Jayden was being more quiet then usual. Granted he and Tawni were in an argument that neither were budging on making the first move. She just wondered what the argument was about. Tawni was clearly never going to give her an explanation and Kerry was finding that the close bond she had with her eldest sister was tearing at the seams.

Now more than ever Karen and Kerry had to stick together. Kerry just wished that Karen wasn't such a boy crazy teeny bopper anymore. Sure Kerry was a shopaholic, so were Karen and Tawni, but Karen was worse then them all put together.

Karen took up the whole bathroom in the morning putting on make-up and making sure her hair was perfect. Kerry only cared about if her hair was in a ponytail, braid, or bun. She didn't want to be sitting in a locker room for three hours making herself look presentable, so a boy could catch her eye. If a boy wanted to get to know Kerry, he had to accept her for who she was, a trained martial artist and gymnast who only needed functional as opposed to vanity.

Not that many people related to Kerry in her Grade Level. She was a beauty with a very high intellect who wore glasses and looked like someone you wanted to taunt but many of her classmates found out the hard way that you didn't make fun of her. She had defended herself against a bully because the bully had underestimated her. It resulted in the Principal calling her parents to let them know that Kerry had gotten into an altercation. She ended up being grounded for three months.

Kerry didn't let her temper shine much because of the consequences. That day was the day that her sister had gone to spend a semester abroad in Japan. She and Tawni had a difficult time saying good-bye to each other. All of the emotions she had bottled up had risen to a boiling point. All the bullying she received and inadvertently losing her sister exploded.

Tawni was secretive before she left for Japan but she came back from Japan even more secretive Tawni seemed to be harder and more unreachable then ever. Kerry had a feeling that what ever the three eldest Olivers were always whispering about had to do with a lot of serious stuff like life threatening stuff.


Tawni sprinted down the stairs that started at a door in the kitchen and descended into a subterranean level that held the family dojo aka Center Command of Angel Grove. This was Tawni's hub. She had surveillance monitors in the room showing every angle of Angel Grove's Exterior Areas and Public Buildings. It was her "viewing globe" to the world she had to protect.

She saw her Parents going over surveillance footage of the fight she and Jayden had with Dekker.

"So you've found Uncle Cole," Tommy stated in a stern voice.

Tawni nodded. "Apparently the Nighlok have him brainwashed into thinking he's a hybrid. Half-human/half-Nighlok. The only thing is we have to figure out a time frame of when he was captured." She explained.

Time travel was a common occurrence in the Ranger World. Several teams have gone to the Future and back as well as the Past and back.

Future Teams went onto being mentored by Present Teams. Time travel was however tricky because there were many dimensions aka Parallel Universes. It was hard tracking down which time line was affected. But once a Past Team, Present Team or Future Team met memories were erased after the visitation.

So for all they knew Dekker's Memories were just that Dekker's Memories. Cole could have gotten lost once the Nighlok took over his body.

"We need to call, Billy or Trey. They probably have heard about something in their Galaxies. They must have encountered something like this before." Kimberly offered.

"The only person whoever really encountered something like this is Uncle Andros." Tawni answered. "He and the old Turbo Team battled a relative of his. The world watched their Final Battle, then the relative went on to being a Ranger for the Lost Galaxy Team."

"Karone," The two elder Olivers murmured and stared into each others eyes. They couldn't understand how that could have slipped their minds.

Karone and Andros were separated as children. Karone had been brainwashed as an evil villainess named Astronema. Astronema had been captured by a Evil Creature known throughout the Universe as Dark Spektor. The Final Space Ranger Battle freed Karone from the hold Astronema and Dark Spektor had over her.

"That means that the righteous battle that Dekker keeps hounding Jayden for has to come to fruition or Cole will be trapped inside Dekker forever." Tommy stated. "Astronema had to die so that Karone could live."

Tawni shook her head. "I don't care. Jayden is not going to fight him. I could lose both him and Uncle Cole forever."

"Honey, you already lost Uncle Cole," Kimberly tried to placate Tawni. "We need to let the battle go on as Dekker wishes."

Tears trickled down Tawni's eyes. She could lose Jayden if Dekker got his wish for a righteous battle. "I'll lose Jayden," she whimpered.

"You have to trust and believe that, that will never happen, Sweetie," Tommy reassured his daughter. "He loves you the same if not more than you love him. It will work out in the end it always does."

"Not always," Tawni murmured. She thought back to her training and watching archival footage of slain Rangers. Because they were few and far between but there have been Rangers that had died in the line of Duty. Jayden's father one of them.

"Lives are saved and lost everyday in our line of work Honey. That's why we had you and your sisters start training when you all started walking. If safety and protection are engrained in you, then you all start thinking about every possible negative and positive outcome in all situations." Kimberly inputted.

"You're Dad, Uncle Rocky, Uncle Jason and I have been in the hospital more times than we can count because of battle injuries. There have been times when we have all been in comas and no one knew if we would survive. We have to have faith that your mortality can be stronger than that of your enemy. Faith and Belief are the core foundations of being a Ranger."

"So I just have to sit back and watch from the sidelines as two of my family members battle it out to the death and just pray that they both come out of it alive?" Tawni questioned.

"We're afraid so," the two adults confirmed sadly.

Tawni sighed, turned around and took the stairs two at a time. She didn't know what to do and according to her parents she had to sit it out and wait. Tawni wasn't one to sit on the sidelines. The very near future was going to be a difficult one to handle.


Karen walked into the Oliver home exhausted. Uncle Zak had worked her to the ground quite literally. She couldn't believe that a man in his late 30s could still be so energetic.

She walked in on Tawni storming up the stairs from the basement dojo, grumbling about belief, mortality and idiotic monsters that couldn't leave well enough alone.

Karen shrugged, ignoring her older sister's grumblings, she slowly started ascending the stairs to her bedroom. She was too bone-weary to take a shower. She just wanted to crawl under her comforter and go into hibernation for 1,000 years.

Although she had been taking martial arts since she was eighteen months old, she felt pain in muscles she knew existed but shouldn't be in pain. Uncle Zak was tougher than Uncle Jason. Hip Hop Kido was harder then Karate even with her gymnastics and dance training.

Painful groans erupted her as she took the steps one by one. It felt like it took her thirty minutes to get to her room.

Once she was in the entryway of her room, she leaped across the five feet that spanned the door to the bed; landing on her comforter face down. Once her head landed on her pillow she was asleep. Snores loudly erupted from her throat.


Tommy and Kimberly quietly walked up the stairs to the bedrooms, as they passed by Karen's room. They both did a double take.

"She's still in her gear," they both gasped. It was rare for the middle Oliver Girl to stay in her work-out gear for more than five minutes after getting home.

Tawni walking out of the bathroom, saw her parents' reactions and peered in to her younger sister's room to see what was going on. She had to chuckle at the vision she saw. "Hip Hop Kido strikes again. Uncle Zak beats us to the ground with that. I always dreaded my HHK cycle." She shook head and continued to laugh. "Boy will she feel like a grunger when she wakes up."

"Grunger?" Both parents asked. Time flew by for Tommy and Kimberly, they hardly could keep with teen slang nowadays.

Tawni paused in her step and gave a low chuckle. She turned to her parents, "It's like a Scrub." Then walked to her room closing her door and not seeing her parents reaction.

"You don't think we were too tough on Tawni, do you?" Kimberly asked her husband. Ever since Tawni came home from Japan it felt as if she and Tommy were continually at odds with their eldest child.

"We have to let her grow, you have to admit, we've sheltered the girls a lot. The only thing they have been prepared for is defending themselves. Matters of the heart are something they have to learn. Was it a difficult thing to basically tell her to grow up? Yes, considering she is a teenager and she's suppose to have years to become mature. However she does have the weight of the world and universe on her shoulders. The same weight you, Jason, Billy, Trini, Zak, Aisha, Adam, Rocky, Justin, Kat and I had when we were her age. If this battle is what we need to save Cole, then we have to guide her through the challenges ahead."

Kimberly shook her head. "She's not one of your students Tommy. She doesn't need a firm hand, if she already has a firm head on her shoulders."

Tommy turned Kimberly to face him, he gently place his hand under her chin and lifted it up, so her eyes could look up at him. "I know Beautiful. Sometimes though the best thing to do in these situations is to give a firm hand. A firm head on her shoulders is not going to make her think rationally all of the time.."

He leaned down to give a soft kiss on her lips.


Kerry hearing the conversation between her parents, let out a silent gasp. There was more to Tawni's strange behavior then she or Karen ever thought. Their sister was a Power Ranger.

Kerry ran into Karen's room oblivious to her sister snoring away. Jumping up and down on Karen's bed Kerry kept yelling for Karen to wake up.

Karen being to tired to open her eyes, grabbed one of her hard pillows with her left hand, throwing it at her younger sister. Kerry fell to the floor with a resounding thump and grump.

"Come on you stubborn mule, Wake Up!" Kerry finally shouted throwing the pillow that hit her back at her sister.

Karen grumbled something about pain in the butt sisters and evil uncles trying to kill her before begrudgingly sitting up. "What is your damage?" Karen grumbled through clenched teeth.

"I found out why Tawni and our parents are acting weird. Tawni's a Ranger." Kerry answered.

Karen burst out in laughter. "Your imagination is getting the best of you again Kerry. Tawni is not a Ranger. Don't you think we would have figured it out before now?"

Kerry looked at the elder girl with an eyebrow arched, "You're kidding right? She's been acting stranger than usual since before she went back to Japan to finish her Samurai training. What about the fact that when she's not doing any school or training she's always in the basement. Always! How could you not have noticed all of this going on?"

Karen was now the one with an eyebrow arched, she stood up and placed both her hands on her hips. "In case you may have forgotten, I've been training for the Pan Globals. I don't exactly have time to notice what's going on around me. I'm surprised you have though, doesn't Coach have you working out at the gym twelve hours a day too?"

Kerry shook her head at her sister, "Wow, you really are all about you. I didn't qualify for the National Team. I got demoted to C Squad. I only get thirty hours of gym time a week now, if that."

Karen sat back down on to the edge of her bed. "I'm sorry Kerr, I had HHK today right after Gym time. I didn't mean to snap. I just don't think Tawni is a Power Ranger. Mom and Dad would have told us if she were. They don't keep those kind of things away from us." She finished giving Kerry a pat on the shoulder.

"She and Jayden are fighting you know?" Kerry announced ignoring Karen's jab about gymnastics. "They've been at odds since a little after he and his friends came to town. I can sense something is wrong. Like really wrong."

Taking a deep breath Karen gently took Kerry's shoulders and looked in her eyes. "I may sometimes be in my own world but I can sense things too. You may be right that something is wrong but you know they aren't going to tell us."


Jayden sat alone in the sanctuary's zen garden. Mediation was something Ji has taught him to use to clear his head. His symbol power has been unbalanced since his remarks threw a wrench into his marriage. As much as he wanted to hold his ground and maintain his honor, another part of him knew that the Oliver and Hart bloodlines flowing through Tawni's blood were more stubborn and far more dangerous to toy with. More rangers have come from the two powerful bloodlines then his birth family.

He couldn't live with the discord in his Chi anymore, he just needn't to figure out how to tread around the Dekker/Cole subject. He knew that it was only a matter of time before Dekker goaded him enough to engage in the epic battle he insists were break the hybrid curse cast upon him.


"We have to prevent the Trinity Force from forming. They will be harder to eradicate then these insipid Super Samurai Rangers." The gravelly voice demanded.

"They won't be harder to eradicate they will not be defeated. You've heard of their prophecy. The heirs of Zordon's prodigies will destroy every alien civilization bent of universal domination," came a screeching voice.

"Will the two of you stop your insipid blubbering. If we attack the younger two the older one will attack. We have yet to find any of her weaknesses."

The other two occupants of the strategy room bobbled their heads and mouth mimicked what the self appointed leader was saying. The creature in question had never before encountered the Rangers who sired the subject in question.

"She's not like the Mystic Force Rangers or the Samurai Rangers. Her abilities are engrained in her make up. She annihilated over one hundred fifty moogers, putties, and tangas in one battle unpowered up. That was just with her bare hands."

"You fools. The girl has deep values we will take advantage of. We hold her sisters hostage, she will come running."

"The only problem that could come of this is kidnapping the other two could trigger their powers. What then?"

"She has a point. We both have died at the hands of their parents twice! The change of our lives and deaths will end with the three of them."

"That is something we will take care of if we were to come across it. Now take Divatox's piranhatrons and grab them."

"We can not infiltrate their habitat. They have a force shield 30,000 times stronger then your shield field alone."

Groans came from the self appointed leader. "We wait until morning morons! Why must I think of anything? It's almost as if you two never ruled a marauding nation before," he growled.


Tawni woke up in the middle of the night from a dream that felt so real, she knew something was wrong. She knew that she had more innate powers that have yet to surface, she didn't want to think it was a premonition.

Knowing everyone in the house was fast asleep, she slipped on her trainers and track pants. She could sense turmoil and knew that Jayden was awake as well.

She sat on her rug, closed her eyes and went through the process of teleporting to her husband.

She felt the swooshing motion of rushing air crawl over her skin and whip in her hair. She smiled internally knowing she made another successful teleport.