My Kimberly , My Tommy

Chapter 13: End of An Era

(Continued from the next chapter)

Down in the Ranger Room

"This is just too weird." Ethan said softly as Andros scanned his dino gem. "One minute I'm simply napping in our room and then I wake up with my morpher and gem on my wrist. At first, I didn't think much of it; I was used to waking up with it there, at least during my ranger days. A second later I realized that all the Dino gems should still be locked away in the vault and I don't have any access to it. How it even got all the way to Conner and Kira in Alaska is beyond me."

"I did a scan on them." Ashley said biting her lip at the memory of Kira's sad face when she found out there was no baby. "There was no evidence we could detect that would suggest they'd moved from the ship. The only theory we've come up with is Time travel followed up with a memory wipe."

Andros nodded. "The trouble is that no one has technology that could wipe memories that thoroughly. At least as far as I'm aware of."

"And what of the gems? Tommy asked soberly.

"Three of them, Kira, Conner, and Ethan's are fully re energized. If you were took hook them up to the morphing grid, you'd be solidly ready should there be an attack on earth. If you wanted to, I could do the same for the black and white gems, so you'd have the set."

"But, wait, Dr. O." Ethan said in confusion. "I thought you said that the gems were useless; nothing but fossils now."

"That is what I thought." He replied. "But apparently I was wrong about it. Andros has more knowledge than I do as far as ranger tech goes." He turned to Ethan. "Believe it or not, I don't have some crazy addiction to the spandex. I have a family to care for and I had hoped that I'd be done with all this ranger stuff when I passed the torch to TJ."

'I was never more reluctant to take on the mantle than when the black gem came along. I had a 4 year old daughter and the thought of Mesogog kidnapping Kayla kept me up at night a lot, and more than once I considered sending Kayla to live here at the manor until the battle was over. Jason and Billy and the girls moving to Reefside as extra protection helped ease my mind."

"But in the back of your mind, you always worried." Ethan replied thoughtfully.

"You bet your ass. And if you think I'm bad, consider Kim. She's even worse."

Andros chuckled. "By the gods, after that whole Archerina incident, her notoriety spread through the alliance of evil. When I infiltrated that dinner party, I heard more than one mention of the Pink Death Warrior. I didn't realize till later that they were talking about Kimberly. When I was invited to the wedding, with the other rangers, I met her and then understood immediately how she earned that name.

"Oh come on, I wasn't that bad." Kimberly said as she stood in the door way.

Ashley grinned at her. "Yeah, you were. You straight up killed Archerina and Divatox was terrified of you."

"You sure about that?" Kim asked. "She had no problem with knocking my mate out and tying him up in that cave."

Tommy wrapped her up in his arms. "Beautiful, she was scared shitless. When she tied me up, she was sweating and had the worst body odor. Her arms were shaking the whole time and the moment you showed up to get me, she bolted out as fast as she could. She did NOT want to face you."

"Serves her right for taking what's mine!" Kimberly said with a fierce voice.

Tommy whispered in her hear. "You should know better than to use that tone when we're not alone."

Andros rolled his eyes and Ashley shook her head.

"Guys, for the sake of the Great Power, please stow that till you really are alone." Ashley said in exasperation.