READY TO FALL
Disclaimer: Don't own Power Rangers, Saban and those guys up there at Disney do. Not making any money doing this, so don't so. Just using the plot and characters for my evil doing and take over the world. MUHAHAHAH! (don't you just miss Pinkie and the Brain, I sure as hell do)
This story dedicated to my new favorite song. I was watching On the Line, that has few of my favorite bandmates, 'N Sync(best group that was out there besides Boys II Men) and I broke out my CD to the movie and the song by Meredith Edwards and/or Joey Fatone touched me, so I decided to use the title, and maybe add some of it into the story, but shhhh...it's not one of those stories with the song lyrics, trust me :) Ready to Fall is just a great romantic songand this a story abouta great romance between Tommy and Kimberly. It describes their love in the beginning, so new, so fresh. That new feeling when you are coming into a relationship with so much promise. So, that is why I chose it.
Setting: First season, the story truly begins around the Green With Evil saga, flashbacks here and there to move the story along. Took the Green With Evil episodes and added a little bit of my twisted style with many spins, hope you like it!
Hint: Italics represents flashbacks and/or dreams
Summary: Kimberly Hart, beautiful, graceful gymnast, Jason Scott, strong and fierce fighter, Trini Kwan, the gentle and soothing soul, Billy Cranston, the brain beyond most of the madness, and Zack Taylor, the boy with the coolest dancing feet and the kick to back it up, defend Angel Grove and the world against Rita Repusla and all her evil monster as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. This team with the coolest colorful suits kick monster butts and still have enough time to balance school and family life.
Rita decides that she is tired of losing to those pesky rangers (her words, not mine) and makes her own ranger. An evil green ranger is sent to destroy the rangers. Who this guy? How does Kimberly know him? Can love break the spell of evil? Or does Rita finally get her revenge over the rangers?
Enjoy!
Chapter 1: Dreams
"PUSH!" The coach yelled at his young gymnastic. "Stretch those toes out!" On the uneven bars, the young girl goes into her giants. "Don't bend!" She repeated her swings. "POINT! STRETCH! PUSH IT!" It was her first time all alone, no help on bars, but coach knew she was ready.
Hundreds of miles away, a Sensei is yelling at his students that stand before him in lines.
"Punch!"
"HIYAH!"
"AGAIN!"
"HIYAH!"
"AGAIN!"
"HIYAH!" They yelled louder with each punch.
"KICK!"
"HIYAH!" "AGAIN!" Sensei walks up behind a young boy.
"Don't lose your center form. Keep your waist and hips in check. Again." The boy nodded and kicked. "Spun kick."
"HIYAH!"
"GOOD! Show me that pike!" The young gymnast did her release move, a simple jaeger, front flip in pike position. "GOOD! Again! More height!" She repeated to another jaeger. "PUSH!" She continued to giant swings.
"HIYAH!" The boy finished the sequence of kicks, punches and spin kicks by himself infront of the whole class. Sensei clapped for him.
"Great job, Tommy. You have done so well."
"Dismount!" The gymnast did a full spin as she went into a handstand then her flyaway double tuck. "Great job, Kim! See, I TOLD YOU!" Coach patted her back as she stood with her hands and head held high as she landed perfectly. Kimberly smiled.
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Kimberly woke up early Sunday morning. She groaned and clicked off her alarm clock.
"Good morning, tiger," She said to her stuffed animal beneath her arms. "I feel a great day is ahead." Kimberly got up and went to shower.
She came downstairs to find her parents being civil. A great surprise, but it was early in the day. Kimberly's parents been fighting since she was little. With her brother home, things went by smoothly, but now he was off to college, leaving Kimberly alone to deal with her parents.
"Good morning, Mommy. Morning Daddy," she said kissing him first.
"You seem chirpy early this morning."
"I do?"
"What do you have planned today?"
"Hopefully not another round of shopping," Jonathan Hart said as he flipped the page to his newspaper as he drank his coffee.
"DADDY! I am hurt, truly hurt!" Kimberly held her chest as she shook her head. "Don't be silly." Kimberly started making herself a plate. "Actually, Jason is in that karate tournament today, so I'm heading over to Trini's first."
"You at a karate tournament?"
"MOM! Jason has been teaching me karate since I was like 10!"
"But you are a gymnast, I don't understand why you don't train as much as you use to. You use to love weekends training."
"I love gymnastic, Mom. I train all the time, you know that."
"Leave her alone, Caroline, if she wants to do her gymnastic at the Youth Center with her friends, then let her be."
"Thanks Daddy." Kim hugged and kissed his cheek. "See, Daddy understand me." Kimberly went to eat.
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Trini opened her door to find Kimberly standing there.
"It's a karate match, not a rodeo."
"Ha, ha!" Kimberly lifted her pink hat up and placed it back on her head better. "Besides, I look good." Trini laughed.
"You're late."
"You think I just rolled out of bed looking this gorgeous, beauty takes time, love. You ready?"
"Let me just get my keys and say goodbye."
"Hi, Mrs. Kwan," Kim said as Trini's mother appeared.
"Oh, hello Kimberly. It's great to see you this morning. You look cute."
"Thanks."
"Bye, Mom. I'll call you later." Trini kissed her mother's cheek and left.
"Bye, girls."
"Bye!" They waved and left.
On the walk to the Youth Center, Kimberly was spacing off. Trini stopped at the doors.
"Whatcha thinking about?"
"Nothing."
"Liar." Kim smiled at her best friend.
"I had another dream about my coach." Kimberly's first and true coach, Coach Chris Thompson died, one of the main reason Kim left the gymnastic center and decided to work on her own nowadays.
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay. It was the one where I did my first double tuck off bars."
"Wow."
"When I have a dream like that, something good is ahead." Kimberly had a dream like that the day before she was picked to become a member of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It was a little different, she was training on beam that time. But as she performed her first front pike to beam without assistance and stuck it, coach was still beside her. Coach Thompson walked along side her, edging her on, giving her the confidence and drive to push on. Kimberly ended with her first dismount and stuck landing, earning cheers and congratulation from all watching her.
"Good. Come on, Jason is probably warming up." They went inside.
Jason had reached the finals of the tournament. Kimberly stood beside him, like Trini, Zack and Billy. She was holding his water bottle looking around. Zack was edging Jason on to get him hyped up for the match.
"Now remember, Jason. Think positive, stay true to form and concentrate on your moves!"
"Yes focus is key! Focus your mind and your body," Trini said patting his stomach. Kimberly not paying attention much, drinking his water as she stared off at a figure ahead warming up.
"Thanks you guys, but looks like I'm gonna need all the help I can get," Jason said pointing ahead to his opponent. The young guy was doing spin kicks.
"Man, that dude is pumped!" Everyone nodded. "Who do you think he is?"
"I don't know, probably some new kid at school."
"He is really cute." Jason rolled his eyes, as Trini looked down at Kimberly with a smile. Kim just smiled at them. Trini laughed. Jason shook his head and went back to warming up. Jason looked back over at Kimberly.
"Is that drool, Kimmie?" Jason touched her chin
"Shut up!" Everyone laughed as she wiped her chin, though there wasn't anything there. "Not cute!" She punched his shoulder. Jason smiled. "And it' Kimberly, KIM! Not Kimmie! You know how much I hate that name!" Jason laughed as he blocked her hits. Trini smiled, Jason was now a little more looser than he was a few minutes ago. Now, he could be more focused.
Though Jason only ended up tying against the opponent, it was great match. Tough and fierce, having Jason to come back in the end. Jason did feel a little down about not winning. With the match ending in a drawn, no champion, no title. Jason went over to his friends.
"Great match Jason!" Zack gave him a towel as he congratulated him. Kim handed him his water.
"Yea, but I didn't win."
"Oh, come on, Jason," Trini said putting her arm around him. "You know winning isn't everything."
"I know. Look, I'm gonna go catch a shower and meet you all at the juice bar."
"Okay." Zack and Billy went to get a table. Trini was following, but saw Kimberly standing there. Kimberly's eyes never left the young boy. He was getting congratulated by other people.
"Hey, Kim, you coming?" Trini smiled and stood beside her best friend. "He is gorgeous, isn't he?"
"You can say that again."
"Hey, probably you'll meet him at school tomorrow."
"Yea." Trini kept her arms on Kimberly and they went up to find Billy and Zack.
Kimberly got home to her front door to hear a crash and a yell from inside. Kimberly sighed and turned back around.
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The water was cold. She couldn't breath, she couldn't swim. The world around her getting smaller and smaller, until everything went black. 2 arms grabbed her by the waist and pulled her to safety.
"Breathe! PLEASE BREATHE! Wake up!" Cries could be heard in the distant. "BREATHE!" Water finally left her through coughing. "Stay with me...don't close your eyes...just stay with me." A face looked down at her with concern. Her vision still blurry, as she had finally stopped choking on water she could see clearer. "Stay with me, are you okay?" She nodded. "Good, just keep looking at me." The young boy smiled at her.
Kimberly gasped and sat up from sleeping on the bed. She looked around the dark room breathing hard. Kimberly held her head as she took deep breaths. She could still taste the cold water. Trini sat up beside her.
"Kimberly? You okay?" With her parents fighting again, Kimberly walked to Trini's place to sleep for the night. Mrs. Kwan understood and allowed her to stay.
"Yea, just a bad dream."
"What was it about?"
"Remember our first summer together at the camp?"
"When I came full, or half?"
"Half?"
"Of course, why?"
"I had a dream about it."
"The water one." Trini stated more than a question. Kim nodded. "Was it bad again?" Kim shook her head.
"Not totally."
"Oh, I get it, you dreamed about that boy again." Trini had a huge smile.
"How can you possibly dream of someone, someone you never even knew and feel such a deep connection for? Those eyes he had were.."
"He saved your life, Kimberly. Of course you remember him and have this connection to him."
"But I don't even know his name, Trini."
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Flashback to summer of 1988, Kimberly Hart stood alone with her parents as the bus was getting loaded up. It was to be her first camp away from home. That was over night and not the return evening one. As the leaders took her 2 bags, a woman held her hand out for Kimberly to come.
"Come on, Kimberly, time to get on the bus." A young Kimberly holding her parents hands outside the bus wouldn't budge. She was about 9, soon to be 10.
"But I'm scared Mommy. Will they all like me?"
"Of course, princess," Mr. Hart said lifting his daughter. "They will all love you. Now go." He gave her a kiss. Kimberly's mother bent down and fixed her nametag.
"It's just a summer trip, okay, you can call the second you want to come home." Little Kimberly nodded. Kim's mother tugged on her pigtails and pressed her nose. "Beep."
"Beep." Kimberly did the same to her mother.
"I love you, baby."
"Bye, Mommy. I love you." They hugged. Kimberly went to the steps. The woman lifted her up. Kimberly turned and waved to goodbye to her parents.
"Why don't you go take seat with Billy." Kimberly looked around. A young Billy Cranston moved over for Kimberly.
"Hi."
"Hi." Kimberly said back. Besides them, a young Jason and Zack.
"Billy's got a girlfriend! Billy's got a girlfriend!" They teased.
Summer camp was growing tiresome for Kimberly. Everyone had their friends, but her. Jason, she had grew up with his family, since his mother and her mother were so close since they went off to camp many many moons ago, but now he had Billy and Zack. They spent many days teasing and telling Kimberly to go away and play with girls and leave them be so they could do their karate. Young Billy not to concerned with karate, but loved having friends that included him in things. Kimberly found herself going off alone a lot. It was about half-way through the summer camp session, so some kids would be leaving, while today, new guest would be arriving as well.
Kimberly alone, saw a young boy doing some karate alone. She watched him from a distance. She had never met him during her entire time at the camp. It wasn't until she popped a twig did he even know she was there.
"Who's there!" Kimberly gasped and stepped back. "Show yourself!" Kimberly ran. The young boy ran after her. As Kimberly was crossing a bridge, some wood pieces popped and Kimberly fell into the water. Though she could swim, she couldn't fight the strong river current and went under and everything went blank after that.
A camp leader, showing some of the new students around the site, saw this and raced to save her, but the young boy was the first to get her and pull her to safety. Kimberly opened her eyes to see a young face staring down at her. When he smiled at her, she felt safe. A camp leader quickly moved aside the young boy and checked Kimberly.
"Are you okay?" The young boy stood up and walked away. Kimberly sat up and nodded. She looked ahead. The young boy turned back to them. He smiled and left them. A young Trini got down on her knees infront of Kimberly and touched her hand. Kimberly looked at her.
"Hi, would you like my jacket?" Kimberly nodded. Trini took off her jacket and put it around Kimberly's shoulders with help from the Camp leader. "I'm Trini."
"Kimberly."
"You shouldn't have been out here all alone, you could have seriously been hurt."
"I'm sorry."
"Come on, let's get you dry. Wait a minute, where is that boy?" They all looked around
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"Kimberly? Kimberly!"
"Huh?"
"You spaced off there again."
"Oh, sorry. God, what was his name?"
"He was your angel." Kim smiled.
"I don't have an angel."
"You did that day. Come on, back to bed. We got school in the morning."
"Right." Kimberly laid back down. Trini closed her eyes. She could feel Kimberly still awake.
"Go to sleep! Faster you get some sleep, the faster you can see that boy from the tournament." Kimberly smiled and closed her eyes. She hugged one of Trini's dolls and rolled to her side going to sleep.
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Kimberly walked to her locker. Tommy slammed his locker door after making sure he had his schedule for the day. It was hard adjusting to a new school, luckily for him, many people, especially girls, offered a tour or any help. Tommy noticed 2 punks bullying a girl. He looked at her closely and recognized her from yesterday.
"Leave me alone, Skull." Kimberly slapped away Skull's hand as he tried to sniff her hair.
"I think it's time we teach Miss Kimmie a lesson!" Kimberly sighed.
"Leave me alone, guys!"
"Hey! Didn't you hear the pretty lady, she said leave her alone." Bulk and Skull turned to see Tommy standing there. Kimberly smiled at the Tommy standing behind and between Bulk and Skull. 'It's him!' Kimberly's mind screamed.
"I think it's time we teach HIM a lesson," Bulk said. Tommy started a series of punches and karate chops at alarming speeds. Bulk and Skull looked on in disbelief.
"Mm..maybe, we'll teach you that lesson ss-some other time!" Bulk stuttered. "Come on!" Bulk and Skull rushed away. Kimberly and Tommy laughed.
"Thanks, that was great." Tommy nodded and turned to leave. "Hey, um...I'm Kimberly. You're new here right?" Tommy turned back to her with a smile.
"Yea. I'm Tommy." Tommy put his hand out. Kimberly shook it. They both felt a spark, a joint and gasped staring into each other's eyes.
I get a feeling
I can't explain
Whenever your eyes meet mine My heart spins in circles
Kimberly's hand slowly moved away, as did Tommy's hand. 'I know those eyes,' her mind screamed, but Kimberly didn't really listen as she was drawn in. Kim tucked some hair behind her ear.
"Um...since you're new. You want to get together some friends of mine and we can chill at the Youth Center and tell you all about Angel Grove?"
"Sounds great."
"Good."
"I'll see you after school then," Tommy said.
"Okay."
"Bye."
"Bye." Kimberly bit her bottom lip as he walked away. Tommy turned to see Kimberly going back to her locker. She closed it and skipped to her class with a huge smile on her face. Tommy smiled and nodded as he climbed the steps to his class. Everyone passing him by wondered why a guy at 8 in the morning carried such a huge grin on his face.
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