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"I cannot believe I just finished my first big-time tour!" Kira said as their plane landed in Florida.

Kim smiled at her. It's been two and a half weeks since their show in LA and she and Tommy have talked every single day since. She's also been in touch with Zack, Billy, and Hayley a lot more, emailing each of them a few times a week since seeing them and talking on the phone with them, also. She thought about when she said goodbye to them in Reefside. They had gone there to see Tommy's version of the Command Center and Hayley's cafe. Tommy walked Kim around Reefside, showing her the high school and the museum where Kira, Conner, and Ethan found the gems. Trini didn't get to see Reefside, so everyone took a lot of pictures to show her.

The rest of Kim's friends, flying into Florida from Reefside, also made the same promise to themselves that Kim had made: to stay in touch with the others. She thought back to that day they all spent in Angel Grove. They showed Hayley some of the sites where they fought monsters and even went back to the ruins of the Command Center. 'That was probably the hardest thing about going back there,' she thought. She and Tommy agreed to take things slow, although they both knew that eventually they would be serious with each other, each secretly hoping that it would be sooner than later.

"You did great," said Adam, not looking up from his Blackberry. "Hey Kim, have you checked your emails, yet?"

"No," she answered. "I'm not addicted to it like you are."

Adam glared at her. "Zack just got a script for a tv show in. He wants you to write the theme song for it."

Kim nodded. "Sure, that's fine. Did he tell you what the it's about?"

"Yeah."

Kim and Kira looked at each other and then at him. "Are you gonna tell me what it's about?" Kira laughed.

Adam held up a finger, silencing them as he continued to read. He started to laugh out loud. "I don't believe this."

"What?" Kim and Kira asked.

"They're doing a show on the power rangers." Kim and Kira burst out laughing. "And Zack's studio is supervising the whole thing. Zack's going to be producing a tv show on the Power Rangers! They were about to make it into a movie, but the studio decided on a television series instead. Hey, get this. The setting is in 'Halo Grove!'"

"Wait, as in Angel?"

Adam nodded. The three of them continued to laugh as they got their things together. They spent the last couple of weeks telling each other their experiences as rangers. Kira told them that she had seen a picture of the old rangers before, when Tommy was still green. She also told them about when they got stuck in a comic book, while Kim related that story with when they got stuck in the storybook.

"We once saw this Japanese tv show of the power rangers. Of us, actually," said Kira. "Dino Rangers. Conner didn't seem to like it so much, but then he wrote a paper on it afterwards."

Adam and Kim laughed. They pulled their things together as they began to walk off the plane.


"See you later, Kir!" Adam said.

Kira waved to them. Her parents and a few of her cousins were visiting Florida. Trini got them tickets to Disney World and Kim paid for a couple of hotel suites at Downtown Disney for them. "See you Adam! Kim!" Kira got into a car with her family, who she met up with at the airport.

"Let's stop by the clinic, first," said Adam. "I want to say hi to Amy."

Kim nodded. "Alright." She got into the car with Adam and looked out the window.

"Well, that was the most interesting tour that we've ever gone on."

Kim grinned. "Yeah, it was. Very unexpected. It was fine, though."

Adam smiled. "So much changed in just two weeks." Kim looked at him, eyebrows raised. "It was fun, though." Kim nodded. "What's up? You look occupied."

Kim didn't say anything. She looked out the window and then back at Adam. "Do you think it's worth it?"

"What?"

"I don't know...all of this. Traveling all the time. Hiding my identity from the public. Being away from everyone. How do you handle leaving Amy all the time?"

Adam sighed. "We trust each other. We talk all the time. I don't know. I guess it's always the thought of her waiting there for me always got me through everything. And I was on tour with my best friend, so I was fine." Adam looked at Kim and smiled at her. "Why? Thinking of stopping everything?"

"Not exactly stopping everything. But doing more of the behind-the-scenes stuff that I don't have to travel for. More writing. More producing and stuff."

"Does this have anything to do with a certain doctor of paleontology that you met up with in California a few weeks ago?" Adam smiled at her.

Kim rolled her eyes. "No."

"Are you ready to give everything up?"

Kim thought for a minute. "No. No, I don't think I am."

"Well, there you go."

"But...what about..."

"Tommy'll wait for you. He'll always wait for you. He loves you." Kim looked thoughtful. "You guys should just get past that whole 'let's take it slow' thing and get into a real relationship with him. It's not like you want anybody else. It's not like he wants anybody else, either."

Kim sighed. "You think so?"

"Why are you afraid to get into something with him? You learned from your mistakes. And I'll be right there to tell you when you're being stupid. And Rocky'll be right there throwing your phone at the bottom of the lake to join his."

Kim laughed. "Okay...just help me, alright?"

"Of course, Kim. We'll all be there. You guys are our Romeo and Juliet." Kim's face looked horrified. "Okay, bad comparison." He thought for a bit. "Aladdin and Jasmine?"

Kim didn't like that one either. "I'm no princess and he's no street rat."

"Shrek and Fiona?"

"Are you calling us ogres?"

Adam laughed. "Anakin and Padme."

"You kidding me?"

"Luke and Laura."

"Seriously, Adam? I don't even watch that show."

"Hey, Amy does. And they're her favorite couple."

"Cory and Topanga." Kim furrowed her brow. "Ross and Rachel. Chandler and Monica. "

"You could stop."

"Jack and Rose. Luke and Lorelai. I'm on a roll here." He laughed. "Tristan and Isolde. Ken and Barbie. Sonny and Cher. Tony and Maria. Noah and Allie. Johnny and Baby."

Kim even started laughing. "Stop."

"Bonnie and Clyde. Beauty and the Beast. Zack and Kelly. Jessie and Slater. Homer and Marge. Will and Grace."

"Will and Grace? That's more you and I, buddy."

Adam cocked his head and rolled his eyes. "Alright. You guys are our Tommy and Kim. And that's already a story in itself." He smiled. "You want to wait in the car? I'm just gonna say hi."

Kim nodded while Adam ran into the clinic. She looked at her phone, checking her messages. She grinned at Tommy's latest text message. "Hey Beautiful. Hope your ride was fine. I miss you." She was about to reply when Adam jumped in the car.

"See, told you I'd be quick."

"Was 'Sha there?"

Adam shook his head. "And somebody just brought in a constipated dog. I had to get out of there."

Kim wrinkled her nose and laughed. "Shall I call the others now?"

Adam nodded. "Almost forgot to."


Aisha clapped her hands for attention. "Kim and Adam are on their way. That was Kim. They're leaving the clinic. They'll be here in about ten minutes."

"Wait, that was Kim?" asked Billy. "Does she know?"

Trini shook her head. "She usually calls us to let us know when she's gotten in from the airport. She made us stop picking her up at the airport."

Billy nodded. "Oh, okay, then."

"So you guys need to hide!" exclaimed Rocky. "Get in the closet, now."

"If we're the surprise, then why are you guys going to be yelling it when she gets in?" asked Zack, walking into the coat closet, reluctantly.

"Because," began Jason. "Kim expects us to be here. She doesn't expect the party, though. Even though she does expect the food. We're only six people, but we six can sure eat a lot. Especially with the bottomless stomach over there."

"Hey, Kim rivals me in that," Rocky protested.

"And then we have an extra four people," continued Jason.

"What's the point of this conversation?" asked Trini. Hayley smiled and shrugged.

"Just get in the closet!" Rocky said, pushing all of them towards the coat closet.


"So, when's the next time we're headed out to California?"

Adam shrugged. "When do you want to go back out there?"

"I don't know..."

Adam rolled his eyes. "So why'd you ask?" Kim shrugged. "You call Tommy, yet?" Kim shook her head. "When you gonna call him?" Kim shrugged again. Adam laughed. "Hurry up and call him."

"I'll call him when I get home."

"Okay, fine then. Fiona." Adam laughed again.

Kim gently hit him across the arm. "Shut up."

"Would you prefer--"

"None of them."

"Come on...what about Arwen and Aragorn? Robin Hood and Maid Marian. Lois Lane and Clark Kent. Buffy and Angel. Jamie and Landon. Bo and Hope."

"Stop!"

"Allan and Monica. Dylan and Brenda. Derek and Meredith. Christina and Burke."

"You watch too much tv. And too many movies."

Adam laughed again. He unbuckled his seat belt after pulling into the driveway of Kim's house. Not surprisingly, Aisha's and Jason's cars were there, which probably meant that Rocky and Trini were there also. "Come on, we'll get everything later. I feel like Rocky."

"Hungry?"

Kim and Adam laughed as they made their way to the front door. Kim fumbled with her keys, trying to find the right one. She finally opened the door and everything was quiet. "Guys? Where are you?" she called as she threw her purse down on the couch and headed for the kitchen. "Pizza sound good, Adam?"

"Yeah," he answered.

"SURPRISE!"

Kim jumped, taken aback. It took her a moment for everything to sink in. "What? Why...I don't get it." She looked at Aisha, standing in front of her. "Is it my birthday and I don't know it?"

"No, girl, welcome back," Aisha said, moving forward to give Kim a hug. "We just thought it'd be fun to have a little welcome home party for the two of you."

"You never did before..." Kim looked confused.

"Well, we wanted to this time."

"Thanks," said Adam. He gave Aisha a quick hug and looked at Rocky. "Where's the food?" Rocky pointed down towards the table. "Thanks."

Kim laughed. "Thanks guys." She moved to the coat closet and opened it to put her sweater in there. Kim felt something grab her and she jumped again and yelped. "What are you doing here?" She threw her arms around Tommy.

"Don't forget about us," Billy said, pushing his way aside Kim and Tommy.

Kim looked at her, amusement on her face. "Why were you two--"

"Four," said Hayley and Zack, walking out at the same time.

Kim looked like she was about to laugh. "Why were you four hiding in the closet?"

"Oh," said Hayley. "Wait."

"Surprise!" The four of them said with not much enthusiasm.

Kim started laughing. "Thanks, I guess."

"Hey, we would've had more energy if we weren't waiting in there for so long," protested Zack.

"I didn't know they were going to take that long," Aisha argued.

"Sorry, we were in the middle of arguing about something," Kim said.

"Your closet's big, Kim, but not big enough for four grown adults to hide in there for more than ten minutes."

Kim laughed. "Sorry. I am glad to see you though." She let go of Tommy and moved to hug Billy, Zack, and Hayley.

Kim hugged Hayley a bit longer than she did the other two. When they got to Reefside and she saw how much Hayley helped Tommy out, she realized how close the two of them were. Not unlike her and Adam, her and Rocky, and her and Jason. Hayley took her aside and told Kim about what she thought of her before they met and how her perception has changed. She thought Kim was a strong individual, albeit with her own faults that Kim has owned up to. 'A little too much,' Hayley had said. Kim was glad, of course, because she didn't want to be on the wrong side of one of Tommy's close friends. She was surprised, but happy that Hayley was so honest with her. Hayley apologized profusely, but Kim didn't hear none of it. 'You actually reacted the way I wanted Tommy and the others to react. I didn't want them to like me,' she told Hayley. 'Well, I don't think they ever stopped. And I could see why. Deep down, they always loved you. You're a great person, Kim.'

"Well, let's get this party started!" exclaimed Zack. He went toward Kim's stereo and put some music in. Everybody grabbed a paper plate and gathered around the table.

"Grab a piece of chicken before Rocky gets it all!" yelled Jason.

"Hey," Rocky protested. "Adam got food before I did tonight." Everyone laughed.

"I was hungry!" Adam said, grumpily. He pushed his way in front of Rocky, who promptly pushed him out of the way.

"Wait your turn, we did."

Adam rolled his eyes and stepped back. "Whatever, Rock."

"So, what do you think?" Kim asked Tommy, gesturing around the house.

Tommy followed her gaze. "It's nice. Aisha showed us around earlier. It's big."

"I wanted them all to stay with me. Which they do, most of the time. They all have their own places down here, too." Kim looked up at him. "When did you guys get here anyway?"

"We flew in late last night. Got in around midnight."

"I can't believe you guys kept it a secret. I wondered why they yelled surprise."

Tommy laughed. "We did, too. And why we had to get in the closet."

"Why was that?"

Tommy shrugged. "Who knows? It was Rocky's idea."

"Ah. Then of course you would've had to." Kim laughed. "Here, grab some of this." She picked up a spoonful of spinach dip and put it on Tommy's plate, followed by pieces of bread. "It's the best. Aisha made it."

"Mmm, thanks." Tommy took a bite of it. "It's good, Aisha." Aisha smiled and waved at him.

"So when did you guys plan this whole trip?" Kim grabbed her food and made her way to the living room. Tommy followed her while the rest of their friends made their way to the tv room.

"About a couple hours after you two left Reefside. About the time when you and I got off the phone when you guys were on your way to San Francisco."

"Ohh," Kim nodded. "And I'm going to assume that Adam was in on it."

"Correct."

"Which explains why he's been so attached to his Blackberry lately."

Tommy laughed. "Yeah, I guess so. Did you hear about that new tv show that Zack's producing?"

Kim laughed. "Yeah, I'm gonna be working on the theme song for it. I haven't talked to him about it, yet. Adam told me about it earlier when we landed."

"How was Seattle? That was the last stop, right?"

Kim nodded. "It was good. None of it compared to the LA show, though." She smiled happily at him. "So, how'd you get time off? I thought you were on spring break for that one week?"

"I asked the principal for a favor. She agreed and let me come out here for a couple weeks. As long as I'm back well before finals."

"This same principal that you got into a fight with on the school grounds?"

"She was a different person back then. Besides, it was three years ago." Tommy laughed.

"Remind me to thank her later."

"Will do." Tommy grinned at her, taking a bite of his food. "How's Kira doing?"

"She's good. She was really excited coming back home. Seeing her like that makes me remember when I first started."

Tommy smiled. "How was that?"

"Hey, Kim?" Zack's voice echoed through the house.

"Over here, Zack," she answered. "Go through the kitchen, and turn left at the doorway up there."

"Ever get lost in this place?" Zack sat down next to Tommy. He grabbed one of the pieces of bread from his plate and dipped it in the spinach dip and ate it.

"When I first bought it. But I was always running into one of them, anyway, so..."

"Alright, well, sorry for interrupting, but Adam told me that he told you about the tv show?"

Kim nodded. "Yeah, a TV show about the Power Rangers, huh?"

Zack laughed. "Yeah. But the way I'm envisioning the show to be is to have the rangers as a secondary story. The first one will be the rangers' friendships with one another. Going through life and all that good stuff. How does that sound?"

Tommy looked at both of them and smiled. "Sounds good, man."

"Great, because I was planning on basing it on our experiences. Especially yours, bro."

"Why?"

Kim laughed. "Because you were it the longest!"

Zack nodded. "Yeah. And we were friends before the rangers and" Zack smiled at both of them, "we still are." Tommy and Kim both nodded and smiled. "And besides, most of the tv shows today have to do with so much drama and your wife is sleeping with my husband type of things, that we just wanted to change it a bit. Or they're all reality shows."

"What kind of show is this for? Who's it geared towards?" asked Kim.

"Kids," Zack answered matter-of-factly. "But you know, to give them something different."

"Kira said that they saw a tv show from Japan that featured the rangers."

"Yeah, but Kim, that was dubbed. And it was, what? At like 3 in the morning or something? Work with me, here."

"Sorry," she said, smiling. Zack waved it off. "I'll try to start coming up with some stuff, then."

"Cool, cool," he said. "That's pretty much the premise of the show. They're rangers, but they're friends first and foremost."

"How long has this show been in the works?"

"A while, now, actually. It was supposed to be a movie, but then we decided to change it to a television series. And it was supposed to feature the rangers above everything, but in light of the last couple of weeks, I decided on a change. And the other producers that I'm working with on this agreed to it. They loved the idea." Kim and Tommy smiled. "Well, I'll leave the two of you alone..." He stood up and left.

Kim rolled her eyes. She looked at Tommy. "You want to get out of here?"

"Alright, sure." He wiped his mouth.

"You finished?" Kim grabbed his plate. Tommy nodded and put his used napkin on the plate. She walked to the kitchen and threw their plates away. "Hey, you guys, we'll be back for a bit."

Tommy heard a chorus of "okay's" coming from his friends.

"You ready?" Tommy nodded and followed Kim out the door.


There you go! hope you liked it!