I can't teach

"Hey Kimberly, wait up" Tommy ran up to his girlfriend and wrapped her in a tight hug. Kimberly looked at him thankfully and kissed him. Her brother was really sick and she'd be by herself for days on end. The only person who could get near her without running off was Tommy "I know you're sad but you have to…" he paused and turned to her "Do you feel that?"

Kimberly did, a tingling feeling was running through her body. It felt a lot like she was teleporting but Zordon and Alpha would normally warn them, just in case they were in public.

"What's happening" she panicked and Tommy held her tighter. He didn't think Alpha and Zordon were behind this teleporting business at all. He thought it was Rita or Zedd or someone else that had something against the power rangers.

"Tommy, who's doing this" Kimberly squealed.

"I dunno" he said and then they both disappeared.

Tommy woke up in the park, rubbing his sore head. He heard a groan from behind him and turned to see Kimberly sitting up gripping her arm.

"Where are we Tommy?"

"I don't know" he helped her to her feet and they both looked around. It was a lot like Angel Grove but they could both tell that it wasn't.

"Tommy, I wanna go home"

"Kim, you're a power ranger, calm down and act like one" Tommy hadn't meant to say that but it was too late. Kimberly had an angry expression on her face as she glared at Tommy.

"Nice, I'll find my own way home" she turned on her heel and stalked off across the park. Tommy stood there staring after her and sighed.

Once she was far away from Tommy, she sank onto the grass and stared at her feet. She wanted to get home, her brother may be dead by now and she wouldn't know.

"Are you ok" a concerned voice from behind her made her look up. A girl around Kimberly's age stood behind her. The girl had on jeans and a yellow shirt. She had brown curly hair that touched her shoulders and her face was full of anger, worry and sadness.

"Um…yea, I'm fine" the girl plopped down next to Kimberly.

"Hi, I'm Kira" her voice didn't have any tone to it.

"Hi Kira, I'm Kimberly" Kimberly smiled at the girl "You look upset is something wrong"

"Um…no I'm fine" Kimberly looked Kira over again and her gaze landed on Kira's arm.

"What happened" a huge bruise nearly covered Kira's arm. Kira quickly moved her arm and looked away. Tears started to form in her eyes as she recalled the other night.

"Nothing, I'm fine" Kimberly knew that Kira was lying.

"Kira, please tell me" Kimberly begged and something about Kimberly's voice made Kira trust her.

"It's my dad" Kimberly's eyes went down.

"I know how it feels, my brother could die any day now but that still doesn't explain the bruise" Kimberly patted the girl carefully but Kira pushed her arm away and Kimberly noticed more than anger in there. It was as if she had made a terrible mistake.

"You don't understand though. It's not like that at all. My dads are horrible. He don't give a damn about anything but punching the crap outta me" Kira's eyes widened and she quickly covered her mouth in horror. Kimberly's eyes widened.

"What!"

"That was a mistake, I wasn't meant to…" Kira gave into the tears and covered her entire face with her hands.

"Your dads abusive" hissed Kimberly and Kira looked up with a tear-stained face.

"It's worse than that, its much much worse"

"Have you told anybody" demanded Kimberly hugging the other girl.

"No" Kira's muffled reply said and Kimberly was horrified beyond belief.

"Why!"

"I c…can't" cried Kira and Kimberly became confused.

"But you have to"

"He'll kill me"

"What about your mum, she'll stop him right, you're her daughter" Kimberly tried to comfort Kira.

"He killed her, 3 days ago, they…they were fighting over…over me and he took a knife and" Kira collapsed. She couldn't say anymore. She had just spilled out a horrible secret to a girl who she didn't know. She couldn't continue.

"Did you…did you see this" Kimberly demanded. Kira nodded and Kimberly started to feel like murdering that man who Kira called her father. "Is…is he your real father?"

"Y…yes"

"When did he start beating you?"

"Ever since I was 5. He was always running around with knives and threatening me. Mum was also like that but she wasn't as bad as my dad. They both hated me and they hated eachother. I…I couldn't tell anyone, I couldn't"

"Kimberly" someone yelled and Kimberly saw Tommy running across the yard "Kimberly, I've been looking everywhere for you" he stopped next to the two girls and noticed Kira "What's wrong with her?"

"Kira's dads abusive" Kimberly mumbled and Tommy gasped.

"What is his name" he demanded and Kira looked up shaking.

"Mr Max Ford"

"No, I had him" he growled and Kira looked at him witheringly.

"You can't have, he's been with me since I was born. Since 1987" Kim gasped at the year. This girl wasn't a 7 year old/

"But I had him, in 1981" he said and she looked at him.

"You're too young to be born then"

"But this 1993 now" Tommy fought and she glared at him.

"Its 2004 dumbass" she told him and he gasped.

"Oh no" he glanced at Kimberly and she also had a panicked look on her face.

"School starts tomorrow" Kira continued and Tommy nodded.

"Um…don't panic Kimberly. The others are gonna be so worried" the others meant Zordon and Alpha but Kira didn't need to know that.

An hour later Kira, Kimberly and Tommy sat in Kira's bedroom. Her father was out so she brought them into her house.

"You guys gonna go to school?" she asked and they frowned at eachother.

"Uh, I'm not registered for Reefside high, I was registered for Angel Grove but if I still am I'm in shock" Tommy admitted. Kimberly was quick to agree. Kira stared at them. It seemed as if they were dancing around something.

"Why wouldn't you be enrolled in a high school?" She asked innocently. Tommy tried one of his sorta true stories that he had used before.

"Well, we're boyfriend and girlfriend" nudged Kimberly to keep her quite "and her parents died. Her brothers about to die and we ran away because she doesn't wanna be near Angel Grove and I'd do anything for her"

"Oh" Kira knew he sounded farfetched. Kimberly glanced at Tommy and turned back to Kira.

"Yea" she sounded hesitant but she agreed with Tommy's story anyway.

"Come along to school then, the schools so thick that it won't notice that you're not enrolled" Kira said and they glanced at eachother.

'Um…ok but we have no clean clothes and no place to sleep" Kimberly pointed out.

"Well, I can lend you stuff Kimberly but I dunno about Tommy" she glanced at him. He came borrow some of the stuff my dad said was from someone else my age that he looked after"

"He's looked after to many people" growled Tommy but smiled at Kira "Yea, that'll be great"

"Where are we to sleep" asked Kimberly and Kira frowned.

"If I was stupid I'd say stay with me but I'm not stupid" she said and Kimberly patted her arm.

"If we did, would your dad mind" Kira though for a minute and shrugged.

"He wouldn't notice, all he'd notice was that he had more people to kill"

"We'll stay" decided Tommy and she stared open-mouthed at him.

"Ok, I know I'm not stupid but I'm not sure about you" she said.

"We can hold our own" Kimberly told her and Kira switched her stare to Kimberly.

'How?"

"Kira, do you know Martial arts?" asked Tommy, Kira shook her head.

"Well, we do and we can teach you" Kira's eyes lit up. She'd always wanted to learn how to fight and the chance was just too perfect.

'Really!"
"Sure and I'll teach you gymnastics to go with it" Kimberly added. Kira nodded straight away and Tommy pulled her to her feet.

"First things first, is there anywhere to train?"

"Um…there's the woods" she offered.

"It'll do" shrugged Kimberly.

"Great, I'll show you the way"

They all climbed to their feet and walked for about 10 minutes before they came to some woods.

"This is it" Kira said smiling at the other teens.

"Great" Tommy entered it first and looked around "there's room to train at least" he yelled back to them. Kimberly and Kira ran after him. They grinned at eachother and set to work. Kimberly said Kira should learn gymnastics first and Tommy didn't argue.

"Ok"

For the rest of the day they taught Kira gymnastics. By the end of the 3 hours, she had learned cartwheels, handstand and small flips. She would have to work a lot harder but Kimberly seemed pleased enough with her results.

"You're progressing on this fast, you're better than Tommy when it comes to gym" she teased her boyfriend.

"Hey, I can so kick your ass in karate" he argued and she laughed.

"Come on Kira, let's go back to your place and leave Tommy to die in the woods" she linked arms with Kira and they both skipped off, leaving Tommy seething.