A/N: I hope that everyone enjoys this chapter and as always I don't own anything.
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Trent had just made it back to his home when he stepped into his father's study only to be teleported somewhere else. He looked around and saw something glowing on the table beside him. He walked closer and saw that it was a black gem.
The energy that was radiating off of it was amazing. He could feel the pull and reached out to touch it. The gem bonded with him at the first touch and transformed him into the Black Ranger.
With fist raised high, he looked down at the suit and smiled behind his helmet. If his helmet had been removed, anyone could've seen his eyes glowing black. The evil energy flowed through his body from the tip of his toes to the very ends of his hair.
He would destroy those rangers starting with the Red Ranger, Connor McKnight.
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The rangers continued to fight the monster only to have two flashes of light appear in front of them. They stepped back as Tommy and Kim attacked the monster. It was a shock to see them fight with a fierceness they had never seen. It looked as if they were possessed fighting against this monster.
The rangers then realized that they were only hitting in a few spots and it occurred to them that they had fought this monster before. It must be one from their shared past as rangers. They could really see the rangers that they had been and knew that they had be great then too.
It was something of a shock to the new rangers but nothing prepared them for the newest ranger attacking them. They didn't know that any ranger had ever been evil except for Dr. O when he was young.
The monster was finally defeated by Kim and Tommy but when they turned they saw the newest development. Kim heard Tommy sighed and knew that this would bring up bad memories for him.
She hit him to snap him back to the present before taking off to help the rangers. She flipped up next to him and started kicking and punching like Jason and Tommy had taught her. She knocked him to his knees before he sprung back up and knocked her to her back.
Kira rushed to her side and helped her up as the Black Ranger disappeared through an invisiportal. The rangers looked around and knew that they were in deep trouble.
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"So we have a new ranger and they are evil." Kira said as the boys sat down next to Jason. Tommy and Hayley were at the computer as Kim and Trini were upstairs in the kitchen.
"Yes and we need to find out who it is and how to turn them back." Tommy said as Jason nodded.
He remembered when Tommy appeared as the Evil Green Ranger. It had been a waiting game then too until Tommy broke into the Command Center and destroyed the controls and sent Zordon to a different dimension. Jason looked closely at Tommy and knew that Kim would need to sit down with him again. It would be a long talk, he knew.
"How did this go when you were evil?" Connor asked as Kira punched him. She saw the look in Dr. O's eyes and knew that Connor had said the wrong thing.
"I don't know. You will have to ask Jason, Kim, and Trini about that. I just know what he is going to do next." Tommy said before walking out the door. He continued down to the lake behind his and Kim's house. He kicked the nearest rock before sitting down on the log that he had made into a bench.
Looking out over the lake, he thought about his time as the Evil Green Ranger. He didn't remember much but what he did remember was bad. Dropping his head into his hands, he thought about how he treated Kimberly during that time and thanked his lucky stars that she was who she was.
It was her love that helped him through that time in his life and now his rangers had to face an Evil Black Ranger. He had no idea on who it could be but hoped that Hayley could find out and soon.
Sighing as he looked back at the lake he was transported to Rita's lair once again while he received the Green Ranger coin. He felt that evil rise up in him once again and knew that his eyes were probably glowing green and that Kim would be worried. He could see every battle against the rangers and Zordon as he told him to stop and that he could help him.
Tommy sat there for what seemed an eternity before Kim sat down beside him.
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"Kim, are alright?" Trini asked her while grabbing some glasses.
"No because I know what seeing that Black Ranger is doing to Tommy. I never thought that he would have to go through that again. I just assumed that when we became rangers again, we would be past that. I should have known better though because it seems that there is always an Evil Ranger." Kim said before leaning against the counter. It was hard for her knowing that her husband was suffering in silence because he wouldn't want the kids knowing that the great Tommy Oliver has a weakness besides his wife.
"Kim, go to him. You know that he needs you more than any drink right now. I think that he is out by the lake." Trini said pointing out the window.
Kim walked over to the window and saw her husband sitting down on the log bench. She smiled sadly because she knew that it had gotten the better of him.
He was out there thinking about his time as an evil ranger and reliving his worst moments of being a ranger. She sighed and nodded to Trini before walking out the sliding glass doors that lead to her back yard. She took her time and walked slowly to her husband.
Since he was in the past he never heard her coming up until she sat down beside him.
"You are not that ranger anymore. You are not even that boy anymore." She said quietly as she turned to look him in the eye. He turned to look at her as well.
"Kim, I'm sorry for everything that I did when I was evil. I don't know how you forgave me let alone loved me enough to want to marry me." He said softly.
"Tommy, you don't have to say you're sorry. You were under a spell and I forgave you because I loved you. I love you even more than I did in high school because of the man that you have become. I knew that it was not you when you were the Evil Green Ranger but I also know that you are the only one that has been in this new ranger's shoes. He or she needs your help as do those kids back in the Command Center. They are looking to you because you are the great Tommy Oliver." She said grabbing his hand and squeezing.
"Kimberly, do you know why I love you so much?" He asked her.
"Because I'm beautiful." She said with a sassy smile.
"No, but you are beautiful on the inside and the out but, because you make me the better man that everyone sees. With you by my side, I am the great Tommy Oliver that everyone claims me to be." He said with a smile. He leaned in and kissed her softly on the lips before leaning back to look her in the eye.
"Oh Tommy!" Kim said before wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him soundly on the lips.
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"Where is Kim?" Ethan asked Trini as she came downstairs with their drinks.
"Out with Tommy." Hayley answered from the computer. She never turned around but if she would have, she would've seen Jason and Trini's shocked expressions.
"How did you know?" Jason asked as he took his drink from his wife.
"Well since she was the one to help him with being the Evil Green Ranger, I knew that he would need her help now. They are stronger together than they are apart." She said typing in several things. She was searching for the invisiportal that the Black Ranger had used but she was having no luck. It might be time to call in Billy for this one.
"Dang, how did she know that Dr. O needed her? They haven't spoken one word to each other since we got back." Connor said as Ethan and Kira nodded.
They wanted to know as well.
"They don't have to say anything out loud but everything in their actions and eyes. She also knows her husband very well. He wouldn't be Tommy if this didn't remind him of his time as an evil ranger." Jason said trying to explain Tommy and Kim to the kids. It still shocked him sometimes at how they could know what the other one was thinking without even being in the same room. It was like they could read each other's minds.
"Are you having any luck on finding out who that ranger is?" Trini asked setting her drink down beside her.
"No and I think that its time to call in reinforcements." Hayley said as she grabbed her drink.
"Do you want me to call him now?" Trini asked. She knew that Hayley could only mean Billy. He was the only one that Hayley really trusted to help her and to touch Tommy's computer. It was her baby after all.
"Yea I think that I have wasted enough time and the more time with the two of us looking the less time it will take." She said as Trini nodded and went upstairs to make the call. It would be a long night she could tell. She might as well order pizza for everyone.
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"Tommy, I'm going to go to the gym for a while." Kim said as soon as they got back in the house.
"Okay but please don't stay too long." He said as he leaned over and kissed her check.
"I won't." She said as she grabbed her purse and keys before walking out to her car. She had some frustrations to get out and the only way for her to do that was to get on the beam.
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"Did someone order pizza?" Rocky asked as he walked in with eight boxes of pizza. Everyone ran upstairs to see Rocky, Aisha, Tanya, Adam, Zack, Angela, and Kat standing in the kitchen.
"I wondered if you would show up. Did Trini tell you to go pick up the pizza?" Jason asked as he grabbed the pizza from Rocky.
"Yea she did but where is Kim?" Aisha asked when she noticed that Kim wasn't there.
"She said that she wanted to go to the gym." Tommy said as he handed out some paper plates. He paused as Connor grabbed the plates.
"What's wrong?" Tanya asked when everyone but the kids and Hayley started heading back outside.
"If Kim is at the gym then something is wrong. I just didn't put two and two together until now. She has been there 30 minutes already.
"Come on Tommy. We need to go and check on her. Hayley please keep searching and kids stay here." Jason said as everyone jumped into their cars. It was intervention time for Kimberly.
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Kim was up on the beam with sweat pouring down her face as the CD player blasted only one song. It had been on repeat for the entire time she had been here.
She was giving her body a work out, she knew that the more she flipped and turned the more she thought about Tommy. She kept pounding away on the beam on thinking about her movements and making sure that she landed each and everything. The others finally pulled up outside and heard the music that was blasting was not a good sign.
"Oh crap and she has been here for 30 minutes. I shouldn't have let her come." Tommy said as he rushed in.
They all followed him in and saw her on the beam. They turned as the kids pulled up.
"I thought I told you to stay." Jason said.
"You did but we are rangers too and we need to know what is going on." Kira said as she walked over to them. Connor and Ethan followed at a much slower pace.
"Jason, you know that they are right. They are rangers too." Trini said as Jason nodded. Everyone finally got back inside to hear the song start over once again. Kim was still on the beam flipping back and forth.
Ooh.. I'm not
You average type Of girl
I'm gonna show the world the strength in me
That sometimes they can't see
I'm about to switch my style
And soon things may get wild
But I will prove I can conquer anything
So from my head to toe I'm taking full control
I'll make it on my own
This time
(Better watch me shine)
Tommy looked on in pride as she preformed each move with a swiftness that he had only seen I her while she was in uniform. She followed the lines of the song with each step and flip.
"Wow, is this how she won Gold?" Connor asked silently watching her do her thing on the beam.
"No she wasn't this good; her routine was much slower but still the same level of difficulty." Aisha said looking back at Kim on the beam. It had been way too long since she had seen her on the beam and performing as if she was in the Olympic Games.
"Wow I have never seen her do that!" Trini said as Kim was on her hands and then flipped only to land back on her hands. It was a beautiful move and one that looked hard to do on the ground. She knew that on four inches of wood it would be near impossible but Kim made it look like anyone could do it.
"I don't think that I have seen anyone do that." Rocky said.
"You know I think that she has gotten better since the Pans." Billy said watching Kim do a flip twist thing and land on her hands only to flip back with her right leg held up behind her.
"I think she has too." Kat said with a smile. This would've been a Gold medal performance for sure.
"Well she is on the beam almost everyday for hours on end now unlike high school." Trini reminded them. It was still impressive that she could still do that and that she could still move like that after 30 minutes.
Bet you don't think I can take it
But my mind and body are strong
Kim could feel the words flowing through her body. It was like nothing she had ever done before. It was such a rush to be on the beam for no one but herself. She didn't even think of the next move just let her body do what it wanted.
Tommy walked over to the CD player to shut it off as Kim flipped off the beam. She landed perfectly and raised her arms up with a smile.
It was like she had an audience that she couldn't see or hear until she heard clapping. Turning she saw that everyone but Hayley was standing at the edge of the mats.
"Kim that was brilliant!" Tanya said as everyone took at step back leaving Tommy facing his wife alone.
"I assume that you don't need to talk now." He said as she nodded. She knew that it had been a risk to do this without anyone here but she needed to be alone with her thoughts.
"No, Tommy I'm good now." She said as she walked up to him and grabbed his hand.
They walked out of the gym hand-in-hand leaving the others to follow behind them.
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I hope that everyone liked this chapter. Please let me know. The song piece is called Watch Me Shine by Joanna Pacitti.