Chapter 40
Kim woke to Jason yelling from the living room. She smiled because everything was back to normal. She looked at Tommy and noticed that he was glowing pink. She looked at her hands and saw that she was also glowing but instead of her color she was glowing white.
She shook her head and wondered how long this would last. She remembered everything from the last 24 hours. She lost her smile then at what she almost did. She could've destroyed Zedd but she didn't. She looked back at the man next to her and knew that if it wasn't for him she wouldn't be here.
She was glad that he was her strength. She leaned over and kissed his forehead. She smiled as he moved a little. She sat up and got out of bed. She was happy to be back but knew that she had some questions that only Zordon could answer.
She looked back at Tommy and saw that he was still sleeping. She would tell him about her nightmares later. She had some last night but this time she knew who was behind them. She slipped on some clothes and walked out to see Jason pounding on Rocky's back. She saw the others and smiled. They were all letting Jason and Rocky go at it. She knew that those two were two big kids at heart and she loved that about them.
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"Get off of me! I didn't mean it." Rocky screamed.
Everyone started laughing. They had been at each other since they had got up. Rocky had said that Jason was putting on Trini's baby weight. When he said that, Jason launched at his head across the table.
Zordon had laughed at his rangers and decided that it was safer for him downstairs. Hayley, Ethan, and Billy had followed him. They didn't want to be in the middle of that fight.
"You think that we should break them up?" Kat asked Trini. She was making headway with Trini. They might not be the best of friends but they were working on being friends.
"No, let them fight. They need the release of tension." Kim said from behind them.
They both jumped and turned at her voice. Trini pulled Kim into a tight hug. She was happy that Kim was back.
"Trini can't breathe." Kim grasped out.
Trini let go of her as everyone else turned to see that Kim was awake. They walked up to her leaving Jason and Rocky wrestling in the floor.
"Are you alright?" Kat asked her when she noticed that Kim was glowing white still.
"Yea I'm fine. Tommy's still asleep so if you can keep those two down I need to talk to Zordon." She said as she winced at Jason's scream.
Rocky apparently bit him. She snickered a little.
"Zordon's downstairs and we'll try to keep those two under control." Aisha said. Kim shook her head and headed for the basement.
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"Alpha, have you heard from Andros?" Billy asked as Kim walked downstairs.
She shook her head at the fact that Billy, Alpha, Zordon, Ethan, and Hayley were downstairs.
"No, Billy but they are sending us specs of the Lunar Palace. We need to find out what Zedd is up to." Alpha said as he backed up from the computer. He would let Billy and Hayley try to find a way to make Kim and Tommy's glowing stopped.
"Zordon?" Kim said as she came to stand next to him. She knew that everyone could do without him for a few minutes.
"Yes, Kimberly." He said as he looked down at his Pink Ranger.
"Can we go for a walk?" She asked as everyone turned and look at her with smiles on their faces.
They knew that she needed to talk to someone and Tommy was probably still asleep.
"Yes. We can go by the lake." He said as he led the way out.
They walked quietly around Tommy's backyard. She stopped at the edge of the lake. She looked out over the water then suddenly turned to face Zordon. He was waiting on her to gather her thoughts.
"Am I really past this?" She asked quietly. She looked down at her hands and saw that she was still glowing white. She looked back up to him again and saw his smile.
"Yes, I believe that you are. The love that you share with Tommy helped you overcome the evil." He said. He knew that she would never know how much he was proud of her.
She had done the impossible. He looked down at her and smiled. She was worthy of being called one of the Greatest Rangers.
"How much longer will we be glowing?" She asked.
"I'm not sure but Billy and them are running tests to see what they can do." He said as he heard footsteps behind her. He looked over her head and saw that Tommy was behind her.
She too heard the footsteps and knew who it was before she turned around. She thanked Zordon and turned to face Tommy.
Zordon walked off leaving them to talk. He knew that they needed to talk since they had close to losing each other.
"Hi." She said as Tommy stepped closer. He looked her in the eyes.
He looked back up to the house and saw that Jason was keeping watch. Kim followed his glance and laughed softly. She knew that he was making sure that she wasn't captured again.
"I don't think that Jason trusts me." He said with a laugh. He turned back to Kim and saw the sparkle in her eyes. He was glad that she was back.
"I know that he trust you or he would be down here. He just doesn't want to see me taken from you again." She said as she wrapped her arms around his waist.
They just stood there as Jason watched them from the house. Trini had come out to sit with him in the meantime.
"Do you think that if you watch her that she won't be taken?" She asked her husband. She placed her hand on his knee. He glanced at her and smiled.
"I just want to watch over them for a while. He needs to reassure himself that she really is back and she needs to know that she can stand by herself. They are a piece of work but they need each other." He said as he glanced back to his best friends.
They were the reason that he finally asked Trini out. He knew he wanted what Tommy and Kim had. He looked over to his wife and smiled. She was his whole world. He couldn't wait for her to have their baby. He knew that the baby would be loved and have several aunts and uncles with one thing in common. They were Power Rangers.
He looked back down the hill and saw a flash of light. He jumped up and ran down the hill to join Tommy and Kim. He heard a herd coming down behind him. He glanced back and saw that Rocky, Adam, Aisha, Kat, Tanya, Trini, Billy, Ethan, Kira, Connor, Trent, and Zack were right behind him.
He also saw Hayley and Zordon coming down the hill at a much slower pace. He finally made it to Kim and Tommy's side. The flash of light finally receded and revealed a beautiful woman.
She was in something that looked like a green bikini except it had some kind of fringe on it. He heard Kim grasp and looked back at her. She had a small smile on her face and knew that whoever this was she was a friend.
"Hello, Dulcea." Tommy said as Zordon and Hayley came to stand with the others.
"Falcon, it is good to see that you and the Crane are back together. Now I'm sure that you would like to stop glowing each other's color." She said as they nodded.
Everyone looked at them as she walked up to them.
"Yea we would." Kim said as Dulcea stopped in front of them.
Everyone else backed up a few steps to give them some room. Jason, Zack, Trini, Kat, Tanya, Kira, Hayley, Connor, Trent, and Ethan had no idea who this woman was but if Kim and Tommy trusted her it was okay with them.
"Okay I need you to face each other and join hands. Your powers will join and then flow back into the correct bodies." She said as Kim and Tommy faced each other and joined hands.
They glowed even more and then their powers joined and circled above their heads. They closed their eyes and focused on each other.
Dulcea smiled as she watched them join their powers and become the ultimate fighting team. This is what Zedd was afraid of these two becoming one. This was the last step for their powers to join forever. She knew that Zordon didn't want Kim to be turned evil but it was necessary for this step. She saw their powers were now coming back into their bodies.
They glowed for a few seconds then the glow receded. She smiled at them and disappeared. They didn't need her any longer. They were even more powerful than her but they had to be together.
Jason watched as Tommy and Kim no longer glowed each other's color. He was kind of sad because he couldn't tease Tommy any longer about being pink.
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"Andros, how are they?" Ashley asked from behind him. She knew that he was still up so she went in search for him. She found him right where she had left him hours ago.
He was working on how to get Kim and Tommy back to not glowing.
"I think that we need to call on an old friend of theirs." He said as Ashley leaned over him. She rubbed his shoulders as he leaned back a little.
He had never talked to the Ninjetta warrior and he was a little scared of her. As he closed his eyes the signals started sounding. His eyes popped opened as he jerked up to find which signal was going off.
He found the one and brought it up on the screen. He saw that it was Tommy's back yard and he ran more scans. He found that the master warrior was already on Earth with them. He knew that this was the only way. He glanced back at Ashley and found that Carlos, T.J., Cassie and Zhane were standing with her.
"What's going on?" Cassie asked as she looked at the screen.
"Dulcea is with them now. They are going to be fine. I think that we should pay them a visit. I know that I need to talk to them and I'm sure that everyone wants to hear all the war stories from the Originals." He said as everyone started smiling. He knew that it was time for a visit.
"When do we leave?" Carlos asked.
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After Tommy and Kim stopped glowing everyone but Jason and Trini went back into the house. Jason was making sure that everyone was alright and Trini was there to watch over him.
Kira and Connor walked around to the front of the house to be alone. They had been talking and had decided to try this dating thing.
"Are you alright?" Connor asked her. He had been worried about her since Kim had gone missing. He just couldn't find the opportunity to ask her. It had been chaos at the time.
"Yea, I'm fine now that she is back. I've never seen Dr. O like that. He was different." She said as she sat on the swing. He sat down to join her.
"Yea but I think that I would be like that too if you were captured." He admitted. He knew that he should probably take this slow but what happened yesterday made him want to hold onto to what he had with her more.
"Really? I think that I would be too." She said as they glanced at each other. He took her hand. It was such a small hand that he thought it if he held it hard, that it would break. He also knew that those hands had steel running through them.
"Kira, would you like to go to the dance with me?" He asked. He had just remembered that there was a school dance on Friday. He couldn't believe that Spring Break was almost over but he was glad that there was a dance coming up.
"Yea, I would like to go." She said as she blushed. She was happy that he finally asked her. She had actually thought that he would wait to ask her on Thursday but she was glad that he didn't.
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"Just like Tommy and Kim." Aisha said from the living room. She had been watching Kira and Connor and knew that they were another Tommy and Kim. She was glad that it didn't take them as long as it had Tommy and Kim.
Trini had filled her in on all the shy smiles, glances, and touches before Tommy had finally asked Kim out. She didn't know if she could take that. She actually didn't know how Trini and them had taken it with Tommy and Kim but she also knew that Tommy was a lot shyer than Connor was.
She was glad that Tommy was over most of his shyness now. He still had his moments but most of the time it was with one of them and not Kim. She guessed that they had been together too long for him to be shy around her.
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