I present to thee, my epilogue. Hope you enjoy it. Hopefully you've read through the rest of Lily's installments in the Kaylee series, most importantly the RPM pieces, so that you'll know exactly who I'll be talking about in terms of SPD kids.

Lemme know what you guys think.

You always hear about the Rangers who went on to change the world after the power. Those that commanded armies, or working behind the scenes to train the next generation. You hear about those who made themselves public, about those who became directly related to the next generation.

About those who survived the destruction of the world.

Kaylee and I went on to record professionally, and to tour, thought they were often interrupted by Ranger business. Mystic Force took us both out of commission, while Operation Overdrive and subsequently Jungle Fury borrowed Kaylee, with me coming back as a Retro Yellow Ranger (Conner still bitter about me being chosen over him when it's brought up). Not to mention she married Dustin, and I Conner, and the kids.

But you've heard all about us. About our lives and our adventures, and everything that has brought us here, to where we are today, commanding the two cities that remain standing in the face of evil.

But what of the others? The mentors, the friends, the sidekicks…all of whom without which us, and the rest of those historic Rangers would not be where they are.

I think of them often. I think of what kind of person they were, how much of an influence they were, and how they helped Kaylee and I get to where we are today. Most of them she's written about, has chronicled in her own way, like the Jungle Fury Rangers, and the Overdrive Rangers, and most importantly, her family, the Ninja Storm Rangers. Most of them are still an integral part of our lives where we are now, split across the cities of Corinth and NewTech.

But there are others who never made it to Corinth or NewTech, some who the attack took from us, and some who I hope are still battling through the Wastelands, trying to reach us.

The mentor that Kaylee and I shared is the first one to come to mind.

A Ranger legend himself (although Kaylee still wins on that one) Dr. Oliver was a great man, and even when fighting alongside us as the Black Dino Ranger, he always had advice to give. After Dino Thunder, he remained in his position as Science Teacher at Reefside High, and kept in constant contact with us through Hayley. It was through this contact that Kaylee and I learned a little bit more about the old fart, including his former relationship with Kimberly Ann Hart, the two time Pink Ranger. And, naturally, professional meddler Kaylee Hanson could not be swayed from contacting said gymnast, under the pretence that she was simply curious about the first woman to control a Pterodactyl, and the benefit of teasing me about it being pink.

It meant I got dragged into helping, of course, and together, we reunited the duo after many years in our little town of Reefside. What becomes of them after that is a little foggy, because Kaylee and I were touring, and revisiting the Ranger business, but we hear they married, and alongside Hayley, moved back to Angel Grove, opening up their own dojo to offer a great number of kids a chance to fight back. And a good thing, too, because some of those students made it here after the attack, and are in the very training that could one day lead them to become the Earth's next line of defense.

One of them, in particular, is already there. Benjamin Thomas. Black SPD Ranger. Trained personally under my former mentor, Tommy, and when I recruited him, he told me that the Ranger legend made it to Corinth. Kaylee even had him help train those little munchkins of hers, the RPM kids. And though I don't really see Tommy much, I see so many resemblances between Ben and Tommy, that despite his love of delinquency, is a constant link to the man I once knew.

And he isn't the only one. The team's technician and Omega SPD Ranger, Kieran Mordane, a brilliant young programmer at only twenty years old, was working alongside our brilliant friend Ethan James at the time of the attack.

Ethan did everything he ever said he would. He went out into the world with his talents, was hired by a renowned computer company, and there, created software and technology that made him both rich, and famous. But not only did him fulfilling his dreams lead him to work with the new Omega SPD Ranger, and benefit himself, but it benefited the world, too.

Ethan created the very technological equipment that my team of SPD Rangers, and the majority of our facility, use. Never having been able to leave behind his love for Rangering just like the rest of us, Ethan developed new morpher software, new suits, new weapons and vehicles, and brought it all to the Delta base in NewTech for them to use. And he brought Kieran with him, saving them both from the Venjix attack.

While Kieran constantly has little nerd-outs that remind me of Ethan, he is not the only link remaining to our former Blue Dino Ranger, as the millionaire lives in NewTech city, within visiting distance, and sometimes assists us if his protégé, Kieran, cannot complete something. He's truly become our Hayley, comfortable in his "retirement" with his wife, Angela, AsteroidConquestFan#A.

Young Kieran, for all his brilliance, is also a reminder of Trent, something which ultimately and continually causes Conner to dislike him. He looks just like him, that sometimes it's a little unnerving. The black hair, the olive skin, and that tortured look in his eyes, the only thing he's missing is a love and talent for art, which thank god he lacks.

And before you ask, no, he isn't the former White Dino Ranger's son. What became of the man whose doppelgänger who may as well be, is a little difficult to decipher, because for all our ups and downs, after Trent left Reefside and went on to bigger and better things, we didn't keep in touch that often. A fact which I can tell you Conner is pleased with, the jealous bum.

After Dino Thunder, Trent went to art school with his father's blessing, studying to hopefully one day become like his hero, Carson Brady, the comic book artist that we saved from Mesogog. The man who inspired him kept in contact with him, and they went on write quite a few comics together while Trent was still in art school. It's what gave him his big break, allowing him to complete schooling and move into the comic book industry, leaving both Reefside, and America completely and traveling all the way to Japan.

I have his very first full-length comic book on my shelf at home, given to me by Ethan, who kept better contact with Trent than we did, and it is the last piece of him I have. When Venjix hit, most of that part of the world was wiped out. It is difficult to say whether or not he made it, because Ethan didn't hear from him after his settlement in NewTech, and to this day, we still wonder, much like with Tommy and Hayley. But if he went down, we are sure he went down fighting. Fighting to defend himself. Fighting to defend his new home. Fighting to defend his father, and step-mother, Elisa, who took their retirement sometime after Trent moved to Japan, and followed.

That day Venjix hit, I distinctly remember Devin Del Valle fighting his heart out to make sure that he, and his wife, Cassidy, made it out alive. And they did. They made it to Corinth with their daughter, Katrina, and Cassidy was the first on the air to bring citizens of NewTech and Corinth the news about the rest of the world.

After graduation, Devin enlisted the help of Dr. Oliver to learn how to fight like the rest of us, saying that despite the fact that Mesogog and the T-Drones were gone, we would like to know how to defend and protect the girl he loved, should anything evil ever return to Reefside. He trained with Tommy until the latter reunited with Kim and moved back to Angel Grove, but Devin kept it up, telling the rest of us that you never know what could happen. Cassidy, on the other hand, quit her job under that insufferable asshole, Mr. Cormier, and went her on way, studying journalist at the local college. While in school and writing from the school newspaper, she was offered a position at her former place of employment, this time higher than Mr. Cormier, by the woman in charge who saw Cassidy's worth underneath the frills and the pink.

Cassidy gave her everything to both her budding career and her relationship with Devin, keeping in contact with Kaylee and I, who could totally stand the new and improved Cassidy over the old one. Moving on from college, she travelled far and wide, reporting on the biggest stories, boosting the credibility and ratings for the Reefside-born TV station, denying job offers from bigger and more well-known stations simply because Reefside was her home, and it was where she intended to stay.

Now, NewTech is her home, with Devin and little Katrina, as they moved with us from Corinth when I accepted the position as Commander of SPD. I gave her my first interview in my new position, yet again solidifying her amazing career as one of the best reporters out there. And really, it was barely an interview. It was just us, old friends, catching up.

The last old friend from my Dino Thunder days I'm writing about today is probably the closest to my family today (other than Kaylee, of course, because she and Dustin and them are family). Hunter Bradley.

Despite all the shared history with the Crimson Thunder Ranger between both Kaylee and I, he's been a great friend, through thick and thin, through team after team. A great friend… and a constant source of aggravation to my husband Conner. I have Hunter employed in NewTech, at our base, training any new recruits and cadets that come our way, as well as assisting to train the SPD Rangers. His own son, Ryan, is part of the team, and proudly wears his father's color as SPD Crimson (or, if you're the twins and Hayden, you'd call him Manly-Pink).

But theirs is not a simple story, and they faced tragedy to get to where they are today. After breaking up with me at Prom so I could be with Conner, Hunter went back to the Academy, but eventually regained a thirst for the outside world, and his stint in Motocross. He left the Thunder Academy and donned his old suit, and travelled the coast, winning tourney after tourney, just like his brother Blake.

And there, racing in 2006, is where he met the future love of his life, Riley MacKay. She was on her very last race, planning to leave the sport entirely behind in the face of her upcoming pregnancy. There was instant chemistry between them, so I'm told, but because of her not-yet-really-formed-baby, Hunter figured there was no chance. But Kelly, still his manager, remained Riley's friend, in touch through her pregnancy, and finally, three years later, reunited with Hunter at Kaylee and Dustin's wedding, as Kelly's invited. They hit it off once more, and soon, after finding out that the baby-now named Ryan-was not part of the picture, they began dating. In no time they were engaged to be married.

But they never made it there. A week before they were to be married, Riley was walking home from doing groceries when she was hit by a drunk driver, dying at the scene. Hunter was devastated, but one tiny little ray of hope reached him in the form of three-year-old Ryan, whom he was told he could adopt, given that he was the closest thing to family the young one had. And so, he formally became Ryan Bradley, and has grown to look just like his unofficial father. Just like he's grown to wear his father's Crimson color, and defend others as one of the SPD Rangers, a talent I recognized in him the day Venjix attacked and threw all of us, around the world, off-kilter.

That day, we lost a lot of people. That day, everything changed.

And that day will be remembered just as strongly as the people who changed, the people who left, and the people who stayed.

Tommy Oliver.

Kimberly Oliver.

Hayley Ziktor.

Ethan James.

Angela James.

Trent Fernandez.

Anton Mercer.

Elisa Mercer.

Devin Del Valle.

Cassidy Del Valle.

Hunter Bradley.

Riley MacKay.

They are all great people. They are all treasured by the people who they assisted.

And they will be remembered, forevermore.

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Commander Kira Emily Ford