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�That had nothing to do with you,� Fred said as Madeline just shook her head.
�It had everything to do with us. Don�t you see how much they had to sacrifice? And let me tell you, that�s not even the beginning of it all,� Madeline said as Fred looked over at her. �You know that he trained us. What do you think that meant him having to do? What do you think that meant him having to give up for us?�
�I never thought that a ranger...� Fred said as Madeline could only shake her head as Maddox placed his arm around her and pulled her into a comforting hug.
�I guess that you have a lot to learn,� Maddox said as Sam nodded. He might still have some problems with his fellow rangers, but he could always agree with them when they were right about something.
�You all held up pretty good for your first time out,� Billy commented as he had merely handed them some bruise reducer. His first day as a ranger had been much worse, but he didn�t think that they would believe him right now. They were still suffering from the actions that they had had to take and Tommy�s reaction to it all, which was almost worse. It was then that his communicator went off and he glanced down at it, wondering why they were communicating with him.
�Are you alone?� Trini�s voice said as he looked back over his shoulder and just shook his head. He knew that if Trini was starting out by saying that, then there were things that he would not want hear about to come out of her mouth.
�How alone do I need to be?� Billy asked as he took a step away from the young rangers. He knew that there was a good chance that he just needed to get away from everyone, so that she could communicate freely, but he hoped that it would not come to that.
�I guess if the rangers are there you�re fine. They�ll find out about it anyway,� Trini said as he let out a sigh.
�How are they?� Billy asked as Trini just shook her head.
�She had the baby and he�s doing okay. I just don�t know if that will last very long,� Trini said as Billy nodded. Both of them had enough on their minds, they needed for their child to be as healthy as possible considering the circumstances. If he was, for the most part, healthy, then they could manage to try to focus on other things. Everyone knew that was far too much to ask out of them but they could not help it. The government was not going to be sympathetic to them, considering what they wanted them to accomplish.
�Do you want me to send them home?� Billy asked as Trini looked over at Jason and he shook his head no. He knew that Tommy would want them to finish what they had planned, especially considering everything else that had happened today. The new rangers needed to know everything that they had stored up for them. They were not going to get the luxury of a long explanation, they were going to have to pile it all into one day and hope that they would be able to absorb it all.
�No, Jason and Rocky are going to be there in a little while. I�m going to stay at the hospital until they�ll let me go back and see Kim, then I�ll be heading over there too,� Trini said as Billy looked at them and they all nodded that they understood that they were going no where. They honestly wanted to go to the hospital, but they felt that that was not their place, yet. They had not worked with these rangers long enough to go and try to comfort them right now. �By the way, have you figured out how in the hell he got in?�
�Yeah, but I better not tell you that right now,� Billy said as Trini nodded in understanding, although she truly didn�t think that that was an excuse for Billy to not tell them what was going on.
�Are they okay here?� Trini asked as Jason looked over at her. He hadn�t even thought about their safety. He had assumed that they would be perfectly fine in a hospital, but hadn�t they assumed that their homes were safe as well? And look at what had happened to them in their own home, they couldn�t feel safe anywhere now.
�They should be. I see no reason for him to do anything further because he does not wish to face Tommy�s wrath. He�s already found out that Tommy has some powers that did not completely leave him,� Billy said, simply, as Trini nodded that that was some small comfort. If Halindon would be threatened by anyone Tommy would surely be that person, but they all knew that Tommy did not need to lose control. That could be a very dangerous thing, to not only him, but to all of the rangers, past and present.
�Well, I�m sending Jason, so have fun,� Trini said as Jason teleported out and landed amongst the rangers.
�Rocky should be here in a little while. Tommy told him to stop by to help with everything, before all this mess happened,� Jason said as he walked over to the console and began scrolling through their files. He knew Tommy had something in there for them to use, he just had to dig it up. They all knew that Tommy didn�t have the best organizational skills in the world, but he did happen to be the one person that could gather all this ranger information into one place. �Can you help find the video? I know he moved everything here when they moved from Reefside but I don�t have a clue what his filing system is.�
�Okay, I was hoping to get home and tell Kat what is going on. She�d want to go to the hospital,� Billy said as Jason merely looked over at him and he began looking through all of the materials that Tommy had stored there.
�Trini is busy calling everyone, so she�ll know soon enough, Billy,� Jason said as Billy nodded. He knew Kat was going to be devastated, they all were, but the only thing that could keep all of them going was that they both were alive and doing all right for the moment.
�Who�s Kat?� Sam asked out of curiosity as Jason looked at the ground and Billy smiled as the video was pulled up and he paused it. He had been waiting for that to come up, so that he could see just how much Tommy and Kim had dared to explain this morning.
�She�s my wife and she was the second pink ranger,� Billy said as they all looked over at him. �I take it that they told you that she almost killed Kim.�
�Yeah,� Madeline said as Billy just shook his head.
�Well, they did leave out my trying to kill Tommy and you know Kim�s fiascos,� Jason said as they gaped at him. They couldn�t believe that the two of them had left out some of the truth. That just couldn�t be possible that all of this had happened to them. �Most of us have been evil one time or another, we can�t really help it. It comes with the territory of the job.�
�You know, I�m starting to think I was crazy to agree to this,� Maddox said as Madeline looked up at him and he stopped his muttering. She didn�t want to hear anything from them in the complaint department. Kim and Tommy were the only ones to have that right and that was because of the hell that they had been through recently.
�Jason! How are you?� Rocky asked as he gave him a hug and saw the worried expression in his eyes. �What did I miss?�
�Kim had the baby,� Jason said, as Rocky stopped halfway giving Billy a hug. He had not expected to hear that sort of thing. He had thought that there might have been an attack and that Tommy had been involved, but he had never thought this would be something that they would have to deal with.
�What happened?� Rocky asked as Jason sat down and the others noticed the sudden shift in their moods. They did not seem remotely pleased and were all business from their appearance. They had thought that the bond between rangers was strong, but they could see that it was stronger than they originally imagined it being, but it was almost expected when these were the people that you could live or die with.
�Halindon attacked at their home and Tommy managed to keep her from being injured anymore than the initial blast, but...� Jason trailed off as Rocky�s eyes flamed with revenge and malice.
�Do we have instructions?� Rocky asked, as Tommy was the head honcho here and he didn�t want to do anything against him although he did think that hunting the creature down would be at the top of Tommy�s list.
�Kick his fucking ass,� Jason said as the rangers looked at them in surprise. They had never seen a ranger�s fury before and they did not like the look of it.
�Is that directly from his mouth?� Rocky asked, as Jason shook his head no.
�That�s from Trini, I don�t want to imagine what Tommy would say if he had the chance to tell us what needs to be done,� Jason said as Madeline let out a louder than normal cough and brought them back to reality.
�As much as we want to hear the extent of your expletive vocabulary, I think we need to be briefed on the extent of the problem ahead of us,� Madeline said as Jason looked over at Rocky, who merely shrugged.
�I need to call Ish, I don�t want her to hear it from anyone else,� Rocky said as Jason nodded. He understood that the second yellow ranger was not going to be happy and was probably going to go to the hospital before Rocky even finished saying what had happened.
�What are we doing then?� Maddox asked, as he could not help but agree with Madeline. This was something that had to be done as quickly as possible.
�We are going to spar until BethAnn and Garrett get here. I�m sure that the message Trini left on their communicators will be enough to startle them into scrambling here,� Jason said as Madeline nodded and tried to loosen her body back up. �No, you guys aren�t sparring, me and Rocky are. I don�t think you understand the extent of how upset we are. You�ll get hurt.�
�No we wouldn�t. Come on, I�ve trained with Tommy,� Madeline said as Jason just shook his head that it was not so. He wouldn�t dare to spar with Tommy until he had gotten out some of his frustrations elsewhere. They had never seen Tommy when he was in his full fury and that was something that none of his friends even wanted to face.
�What they are trying to say is that their emotions make it only safe to take on someone with the same emotions. All of you may know Kimberly, but you are nowhere near as close to her as the rest of us,� Billy said as Madeline just threw up her arms in frustration. �You don�t want them to, trust me.�
�What did Aisha say?� Jason asked as Rocky walked back over to them, just shaking his head.
�Ish handed the phone over to Tommy,� Rocky said as Jason and Billy�s eyes widened. They had not expected for that to happen. �We�re going to have to rescue him from the hospital. He said that the baby will have to stay in the hospital for at least a month, but Kim will be released tomorrow. We�re going to have to work out a schedule with him, someone has to be here and cover the dojo and be at the hospital. Tommy can�t do all of it and he won�t make Kim take on anything except sitting at the hospital until she wants to go somewhere else.�
�Yeah, I�ll call him tonight. I�m sure he�ll be home taking care of something,� Jason said as Billy couldn�t help but laugh.
�What did he break this time?� Billy asked as Rocky laughed.
�I think it was only a window,� Rocky said as Jason nodded and Billy looked over at the rangers who were laughing as well.
�What the hell...� BethAnn said as she landed in the Command Center and looked around. She had not expected this at all.
�I feel sick,� Garrett said as he landed and looked around. �How�d I get here?�
�No time to explain,� Jason said as he took a step away from Rocky and they stopped their sparring. �Let�s get down to business.�
�You�re leaving off there?� Fred asked as Madeline nodded.
�Well, I�ve got to gather my thoughts for everything that comes after that. We�ve got Kim and Tommy�s problems and our meeting. You�ve got a lot that you need to know about and that�s a lot for you to think about. We have to say it the right way,� Madeline said as Maddox and the others nodded. They couldn�t help but want to put it in. It was something that made their team into what they were.