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The End

"Hey Trini, over here!" Kimberly called, waving her friend across the Cybercafé to her table. She grinned up at her, pulling her ponytail over her shoulder as she did so. "How was your weekend?"

Trini gracefully lowered herself into the seat next to Kimberly, pulling some of her hair behind her ears. "It was good," She said. "A little uneventful considering everything we've been through lately, but it was good. I'm going to travel back to Vietnam soon, got my tickets and everything already."

"Sounds great," Kimberly agreed. "You must be excited."

Trini smiled and shrugged. "I am now that I know we're going to be staying in a hotel this time. Even my parents have started to understand why I like to have my privacy." She laughed. "It's always fun, though. What about you? How was your weekend?"

"Amazing!" Kimberly splayed her fingers along the table. She couldn't keep the proud smile off her face. "My girls won their gymnastics competition and now we're headed to nationals." She placed a hand on her chest. "I've never been prouder in my life."

Trini raised an eyebrow. "You mean other than when you convinced your mom to give you your first credit card?"

Kimberly laughed and winked at her. "You got it!"

"What's going on party people?" Zack announced his presence, dropping into the seat next to Trini. He looped his arm around Trini's shoulders and gave her a noisy kiss on the cheek, making her laugh and blush before bringing her hand up to grasp his. Jason and Tommy announced their arrival as well, though much quieter than Zack's exclamation that had brought the attention of others in the restaurant. Kimberly beamed at Jason and gave him a quick kiss, snuggling into his side as Tommy sat at the head of the table. "So, what are we looking at to each today? I need to cram for this test coming up and I need some good eats to do it."

"So your classes are going well?" Jason asked. At Zack's modest grin, he slapped his friend on the shoulder and said, "I told you going to get your degree was a good idea. And you thought I was crazy in suggesting you go."

"School has never really been his strong suit," Tommy pointed out with a grin.

"Oh yeah, Mr. I-Forgot-My-Books-Even-Though-They're-Right-In-Front-Of-My-Face," Zack shot back, making Tommy roll his eyes, though he was still smiling. Then he changed the subject, "But what about you? How're things going now that Conner, Kira, Ethan, and Trent are graduating?"

"And Bay, too," Jason said. He shook his head. "Man, I can't believe she's old enough to graduate. It seems like it was just yesterday she was so little, first becoming a ranger…"

"Yeah," Kimberly agreed. "Sometimes I wish I could go back and do it all again," she said. She looked around at her friends that sat around the table. "To meet you guys again and go on all of our adventures…I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world."

"Aww, you're going to make my cry," Zack said, drawing a line down from the corner of his eye to the side of his jaw. Then he nodded. "But seriously, I feel the same way. I can't imagine how long we've been doing this and what the rest of our lives are going to be…" He shook his head.

"There's plenty for us to experience as life goes on," Trini pointed out. "But we'll always have the memories."

"Yeah, until a new monster shows up and we have to get our powers back again," Tommy pointed out. His smile widened, almost mischievously. "That is, if we can't still use them."

"You mean you haven't tried?" Kimberly's eyes widened in surprise.

Tommy shrugged and shook his head. "I never saw the point, honestly. Besides, I've been too busy with summer classes and my students. But Conner, Kira, Ethan, and Trent have certainly been busy as well. Conner's been doing an amazing job in his soccer league. He's got some sponsors and it looks like he may be going pro soon. Kira's in New York with Tanya, as you know, working on her music career. Ethan's been working on projects with his coming professors at MIT and Trent and Anton are going to be finishing their travels soon and he's excited to be going to art school."

"See, we should've thought of doing things like that," Zack pointed out. "So that we didn't think we needed to go back to being rangers." He looked around the table at the skeptical and slightly offended looks that came his way. "Oh come on, guys, we all know that without our powers and without being rangers, we'd all die of boredom. We could start having kids and be in walkers and we'd still run out there to save the world," Zack pointed out. He started to laugh. "Can you imagine that?"

"You with gray hair?" Jason asked. "Sure. It's not a pretty picture." He laughed along with his friends then looked at his watch. "Hey, it's getting pretty late, I figured Billy and Av would've been here by now."

"Av said she needed to do something first, but then they'd be over right after," Kimberly said.

Avalon Mitchell smiled to herself as she stood in front of the Cybercafé.

She looked into the window, watching as her friends laughed and talked with each other. Her best friends. The people that hadn't given up on her right from the beginning. The very same people that she'd treated like crap when she first met them, all due to the secrets and lies she was holding onto. Now those secrets were gone and in the next few weeks would be forever.

She was going to testify and whatever outcome came from that she could face it. Just as long as it was over. Her friends would be by her side, she knew that for sure. Still, having stopped to confirm to Caine Scott, her lawyer, that she would indeed testify had been hard to do. It took a bigger step forward than she thought to do it, that push off the edge.

"Are you ready?"

Avalon tore her gaze from the window and looked over at her boyfriend. Billy smiled back at her, kind blue eyes searching hers. On her left, Bailey stood quietly beside her sister, hands in the pockets of her jeans. Waiting for Av's lead, like she always had. Bailey caught her sister's eye and gave a beaming grin. The little girl who had been the youngest of the rangers was now graduating soon and going off on her own, she'd grown into a much more confident young woman who loved her sister as much as she always had but was now carving a path on her own. Was Avalon ready for that? Honestly, she would always see Bailey as her baby sister and nothing else.

"Yeah, I'm ready," Avalon replied. She reached out and grasped Billy's hand in hers, squeezing it firmly in her own. "Try and stop me." Billy's eyes roved over her face, his eyebrows coming together as he studied her. "What?"

"Nothing," Billy said quietly, warmly. "It's just…you look happy."

Avalon grinned and winked back at him. "I am happy. 100%." She squeezed his hand again, leaning into his side. She was going to testify against the Vipers and be free of them forever, her parents were going to be there to support her, Dana and Ryan as well, Baley was going to university soon, her friends were still her best friends, and she had someone she loved dearly by her side. 'Happy' wasn't a strong enough word. "Let's go."

And with that, Avalon walked into the Cybercafé with her head held high and nothing but excitement as she looked towards the future.

THE END

A/N: And that's the end. The absolute, complete end of the Avalon series. I really don't know what to say about it now. Honestly, there's not alot I want to say and so much I want to say. There's so so many people to thank and I don't even know where to start. I can't definitely thank XoxMountainGirlxoX since she'd been there to help me since the very beginning of my Avalon series and we've bounced ideas off each other for about 5 years at this point. Than you for being so supportive through it all. Thank you to everyone I've encountered along the way, RedBlack-24, GenkiPlus, Brankel1, Lizziestrong, heartpunker123, Shorty112233, ToxicWednesday, mkmanley8, DragonEmperor999, Duggie Davenport, dguice, 25, ZackAttack1, Ashley, TerraHart, ZoeyBoey224, Pink Lightspeed Rescue Ranger, TommyOliverMMPRFan, grapejuice101, silverhawk88, Jetman21, Green-Extreme-Ninjetti-Ranger, ObsessedwReading, Confidential Author, The Color orange, ae11021, 1980sjfk, sweetredranger, Ms. Strange-Imagination, Saturday People, and more.

You can continue to read about Avalon's and Bailey's adventure in the Bailey series that is still going on with Headstrong that is currently set in Lightspeed Rescue (comes directly after Av's Turbo story Ready When You Are). And now for the announce ment! I have a new series coming up soon. The Amber series, following Amber Cranston, Billy's and Avalon's daughter as she traverses the world that is of rangering and ranger duties. I'm not sure when I'll have the first chapter posted, but it will be entitled Stand Up and will be set in Megaforce.

For those that want to see the continuation of Billy's and Avalon's relationship, you need to read the Bailey series story Get Up, set during Power Rangers Samurai to see how they get up to their wedding and everything in between. However, that story is not uploaded yet. I may post that one as it's a sequel to New Beginning (withing both the Avalon and Bailey series) and continues it from there. Alert me or follow me on Twitter (AvalonAvenue) or tumblr (AvalonBayBlog) so you'll be the first to know when new stories are posted. I'll be continuing with the Powerless series as well.

All I can say to everyone is thank you. Thank you for all of the support all the years and thank you for joining me on Avalon's and Bailey's journeys throughout this series. Thank you all again for following it for so long. You're all stars.

~Av