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This version of Kimberly Ann Hart is from the World of the Coinless who (before being freed) had served under Lord Drakkon as a brainwashed Power Ranger, known as the Ranger Slayer. She is the leader of the Promethea Rangers. She is also the pilot of the Gravezord.

After the complete defeat of Drakkon, sometimes after the storyline Beyond the Grid and Necessary Evil, Kimberly became the new leader of her restored world, restoring the peace and undone everything what Drakkon destroyed.Power Rangers: Ranger Slayer

Character History

The Fall of the Rangers

As the Pink Ranger.The history of this version of Kimberly Hart parallels the history of her counterpart from the central timeline until events which creates the World of the Coinless. Kimberly fought alongside her fellow Power Rangers against the forces of Rita Repulsa and Lord Drakkon, culminating in "The Fall of the Power Rangers" battle that saw the deaths of Jason Lee Scott, Billy Cranston, and her world's version of Zordon. As a result of the battle, Lord Drakkon claimed the Tyrannosaurus, Sabertooth Tiger, Pterodactyl, and Mastodon Power Coins. Zack Taylor and Trini Kwan would eventually escape and form the resistance movement known as The Coinless.

Kimberly was also a member of the resistance helping get people to safety and running reconnaissance missions with Bulk. On one of these missions, she witnesses the death of her universe's Matthew Cook. This, combined with the other losses she has experienced, leads her to wage an attack against Lord Drakkon on her own. While she was able to defeat many Sentries on her own, she is eventually put under mind control by Drakkon using a similar spell as the one Rita used on him as the Green Ranger.

Even though the Pterodactyl Power Coin was originally claimed with the others

Kimberly shortly after being put under mind control.and used to power Pterodactyl Sentries, the coin was returned to her and, combined with the new, evil energy of the Bow of Darkness, she is able to become the Ranger Slayer.

Shattered Grid

As the Ranger Slayer.After Lord Drakkon's defeat during the Black Dragon arc of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, he was dragged back into the present day by accident; eventually getting captured and remanded to the care of Promethea and its CEO (and Red Ranger of the 1969 Power Rangers) Grace Sterling. Meanwhile, on Drakkon's world, the power structures were under revolt as the Coinless were making strides and Scorpina and her loyalists were going rogue; a situation exacerbated by the arrival of the HyperForce Rangers. In desperation, Finster 5 gave the last shard of the Green Chaos Crystal to the Ranger Slayer with the hopes that she could use it and the Gravezord to track Lord Drakkon and bring him back.

Unfortunately for her, she arrived at a point when the Rangers were still new and long before Tommy Oliver ever arrived in Angel Grove. Desperate, she tried to contact Finster 5 but failed. It was then that Rita Repulsa arrived and offered to charge the Gravezord for her. Later the Ranger Slayer sent her Gravezord into downtown Angel Grove to draw out the Power Rangers, and while it attacked them, she sneaked into the Command Center with her Pterodactyl Power Coin. She used a Quantum Field Disruptor to disrupt Zordon’s brain and ripped off Alpha 5's arm. She then issued an ultimatum: If they cooperate and let her use the Command Center’s sub-spectrum long-range communication array, she’ll leave them all in peace. When Alpha 5 got defiant, she readied to brutally attack him but then was attacked by the main world's Kimberly Hart, who ordered her to keep her hands off of Alpha. In the ensuing fight, the main world's Kimberly managed to shatter the Ranger Slayer's Bow of Darkness and thus breaking Drakkon's hold on her.

Immediately, the elder Kimberly had PTSD flashbacks of what Drakkon made her do. To alleviate her pain, both Kimberlys went to the juice bar; whereas Kimberly's cousin Sally, she was overjoyed to see Bulk (who was a loyal comrade in the World of the Coinless), and conflicted by seeing Matthew Cook (whose counterpart in her timeline died in her arms). Eventually, Drakkon managed to contact the Ranger Slayer saying that she would be stranded a little longer as he is on the verge of breaking the Morphin Grid. When he asked where her bow was, he realized that she had broken his control and left her to rot in the past.

She returned to the Command Center to repair her bow and plot her next move by using an opportunity changing the fate of past-present Power Rangers, including that timeline's Tommy and Matthew. She uses an improved Green Crystal to revive the Gravezord to fight alongside the Mighty Morphin Megazord against two monsters, then implanted one of the crystal's fragments into her arrows to shoot past-present Tommy, giving him the vision to prevent his original future-present's fate without killing him. The Rangers managed to defeat the two monsters with Mega Gravezord's Inferno Blaster.

Final Battle Against Lord Drakkon

Immediately after the battle with the two monsters, Kimberly was recruited to the main timeline by Grace Sterling, presumably bringing the Gravezord with her, as it unmerged and dematerialized from the Mighty Morphin Megazord at the same time.

She takes part in a rescue mission to Lord Drakkon's moonbase in the World of the Coinless as the other Rangers are waging the final battle against Drakkon's forces. Ultimately, the rescue is successful, and the depowered Rangers who were being held captive are taken aboard the Promethea.

She is aboard the ship as the World of the Coinless began tearing apart as space and time were wiped away. She observes as Andros tries to command the crew to teleport the Promethea base away and while the base manages to begin a teleport, it fades away into nothing as it does so. With no space or time to exist, once the multiverse was restarted, the Promethea re-materialized into existence and exited at a random vector from the teleport stream. While the Promethea has taken damage, she is seen, as the Ranger Slayer, helping to rescue the injured and trapped aboard the ship.

Beyond the Grid

After the events of Shattered Grid and the recreation of the multiverse, Kimberly is aboard the Promethea as it drifts through what seems like a void in space. She is one of the few Rangers who still has the ability to morph, though she observes that she has few morphs left in her morpher, since where the group presumably has no access to a Morphing Grid.

She expresses a great amount of grief over her time as the possessed Ranger Slayer and contemplates leaving the ship. However, she is stopped by Grace, who insists that she is needed and cannot leave.

She is the de facto leader of the new group of Power Rangers (consisting of herself, Tanya Sloan, Cameron Watanabe, Andros, Mike Corbett, and Heckyl). She leads them on a mission to answer a distress call that is heard somewhere in the universe, though it is revealed that the call was a ploy to lure her group away from the Promethea.

Road to Redemption and New Heir

Kimberly Hart awakens after reality was reborn to find herself in a corn field on the World of the Coinless. Feeling regret from her dreadful actions as the Ranger Slayer, Kimberly regrets coming back to life in the new universe but decides to make the best of a bad situation when she hears riffle fire.

Nearby, a lieutenant Sabertooth Sentry fires her gun into the air and demands everyone get inside as part of a curfew under order of Lord Drakkon or be "re-educated" (taken away to prison). A Mastodon Sentry (with the rank of private) approaches and questions their somewhat extreme actions since they had been sent to protect the people and not recruit them with the lieutenant rebutting by stating that this amounted to insubordination and that being so sensitive would only come back to hurt him in the long run. Kimberly hid in the bushes and prepared to fire an arrow but a bunch of glowing green Red Rangers come out of the woods, attacking the Ranger Sentry patrol and killing the lieutenant. Luckily, Kimberly killed the leader with an arrow through the eye and cutting the rest down although the leader managed to escape to inform his mysterious leader of the Ranger Slayer's return. Taking command, the private unmasks and says he can escort Kimberly back to Drakkon's palace but she declined and told him to take the citizens to safety to which he agrees. Kimberly then walks into the woods before passive aggressively telling him to stay out of her way.

Later on, in the Coinless' hideout, Kimberly has arrived and reveals that she came back to help overthrow Drakkon's forces to Trini, Zack and Bulk. Considering that she had been a murderous enemy whilst controlled by Drakkon, everyone was understandably sceptical of her motives and Zack suspected that Scorpina's forces were about to attack and this was to lower their guard. Kimberly countered that she came back to answer for her mistakes but her former allies took um-bridge with her somewhat euphemistic language used since she was a war criminal. Trini even stated everyone present wished her dead and thought that they could take her Power Coin and create their own Ranger Sentries to counter Drakkon's but they'd have to take her out first. However, Bulk (ever the optimistic member of the group) came to Kimberly's defence and said he'd have to die with her much to Trini's surprise. Bulk countered that she had been brainwashed and couldn't be blamed and that they believed in second chances which made this argument somewhat hypocritical since they wanted a peaceful world but were unwilling to give their former friend a chance. by saying that they were fighting for nothing if they refused to help their friend coming to them for help since this was the opposite of the Coinless' goals. He then closed his soliloquy by saying that they needed her help anyway, revealing the mysterious Rangers to be the undead. Trini countered that they had no proof of their nature but Bulk pointed out their resemblance to "ghosts in body armor" with Kimberly stating she fought some earlier just for Zack to cut her off by saying how lucky she was to have survived that encounter.

Zack tells Kimberly that the Rangers had appeared some months ago and were so ruthless that they would attack anyone they encountered whether they were Coinless or Ranger Sentry before revealing that they had been tracked to the remains of the Command Center which Drakkon had destroyed before he took over the world. However, they had no clue what was inside since no one had ever lived to come back and report to them whilst Bulk tells them that Kimberly's presence gave them a fighting chance although Kimberly tells him that her actions had destroyed any chance of them trusting her. She then steps forward and offers her Power Coin and herself up for trial when it was all over but Trini just storms off, leaving the decision to Zack. He allows her into the organisation but reminds her that there was no way in safely but she had an idea.

That night, the so-called Spirit Sentries are patrolling the Command Center whilst the Coinless looked on and a shadowy figure wanted to go in alone which Zack refuses outright because he was done burying his friends. Before the argument could persist, call sign "Lion" told them to get ready to enter at which point the Gravezord (piloted by Kimberly and Bulk, the latter excited to finally get to pilot a Zord) flies in and bombards the Spirit Sentries. With the enemy distracted, the other Coinless enter the ruins where they notice a significantly more Gothic atmosphere to the place than before. They eventually entered what would once have been the main chamber, fully alert only to be confronted by Rita Repulsa. Zack was understandably struck dumb by her presence since Drakkon had killed her straight after the Power Chamber had been destroyed whilst Rita gloated about how they had outrun death for so long yet they had been forced to face it eventually. Zack told Trini to leave and Rita seals him inside the chamber with her to their horror. Zack tired to energy slash Rita to death but this failed since she was a ghost. She then referenced when she tried and failed to convince Zack to become her new Green Ranger which led her to recruit Tommy and eventually her death. She then threw him down, revealed that Trini was why she had returned from the dead, and declares that she will not hurt them because it would "ruin all the fun." She then turned to where the Gravezord was making mincemeat out of the undead and enlarges a resurrected Goldar who had now been reduced to a mindless snarling creature. The Gravezord mops up the last minions but is tore apart and destroyed Kimberly's Zord although her and Bulk manage to escape from it in the Firebird Thunderzord. Zack and Trini are shocked but Rita lets them go, convinced that they would no longer pose a threat to her as she prepared for the final attack after which she could then recreate the Earth to her own designs.

Later, the Coinless have regrouped at the Mastodon Warehouse where they were based but the organization had splintered since many had given up after finding out that Rita had returned. Kimberly walks over to Trini whilst revealing that Bulk was grieving over the Gravezord and Trini apologized for doubting her motives only for Zack to enter and confront Trini since Rita had revealed that his friend was responsible for her return. Kimberly was shocked but Trini rebutted that she was trying to save them all and made the assumption based on Zordon saying before that Rita wasn't truly evil. Trini had naively assumed that she could be redeemed but she was wrong and was too ashamed to admit it before. She reveals to Kimberly that, when Drakkon ruled, every alien invasion was quickly stomped out to the point of other villains such as Master Vile and Lord Zedd skipped over the Earth for fear of their own lives. With Drakkon gone, there was a massive power struggle over Drakkon's Empire and the various alien factions with Scorpina eventually coming out on top. However, the Coinless were caught in the middle of the fighting and were considered enemies of every warring factions so were getting subsequently wiped out. In the remains of the Command Center, Trini resurrected Rita as a ghost using her wand (which she stole from Drakkon's palace after the events of Shattered Grid) to try and defend Earth from the invaders. At first, she was amiable and hid them from detection but quickly turned on them and started resurrecting an army of the dead to invade and take over the world.

Understandably angry, Zack asked why she made a deal with one of their worst enemies with Trini's response hankering back to his earlier comment about hating to have to bury friends. Any further arguing was cut off by insane laughter from Kimberly who lightened the mood by wondering what Zordon would have said had Drakkon not have killed him. With the mood lightened, and Kimberly reminding them of their old days as a team, Zack wonders how they could save the world without their powers. Trini said they could destroy her connection to the mortal plain which would make her army disappear but to do that, they would need an army to distract the Spirit Sentries although Zack had a very bad solution to that. Sometime later, a Mastodon Sentry stands guard in the city when an energy arrow strikes near their head. They look at it and looks back to see the Ranger SLayer aiming her Slayer Bow at them and demanding to talk to Commander Scorpina.

Maybe an hour later, Kimberly stands before Commander Scorpina in front of the entire army of Ranger Sentries whilst the Coinless leadership stood in chains behind her. She talks about their former allegiances and saying that she wanted to save Scorpina and all of her allies from evil. Scorpina mockingly said it was inspiring but then revealed she didn't trust Kimberly's intentions since she was brainwashed whilst under Drakkon so had no actual loyalty to him so her act of having apparently captured The Coinless was just a ruse. Kimberly reminded Scorpina that she was just weakening the Drakkon Empire by being its leader and that she needed to act selfless in order to regain lost territory. She may have been Drakkon's brainwashed and unwilling slave but motivations and rivalries didn't matter because Rita Repulsa was coming and did not care about allegiances. Whether they were Drakkon's army or Coinless, Rita did not care and would butcher both in order to conquer the world and the only way to stand against her was together otherwise they would both be subsequently wiped out. Scorpina doesn't buy the "enemy of my enemy" argument and orders the Ranger Sentries to execute Kimberly for treason but they do nothing so she shrieks at them to kill the entire group. However, the Ranger Sentries apparently have more common sense than their leader and swore their allegiance to Kimberly which forces Scorpina to aid her enemy.

The next morning, Rita enters the city with Goldar and orders him to start demolishing buildings whilst ordering her right hand man to begin the attack on the city. Scorpina watches the advancing Spirit Sentry army whilst still having her misgivings about Kimberly's plan since she believes they were just prolonging the inevitable. Kimberly mockingly thanks her for the moral support before telling her army to fight with passion since this fight was for the entire planet and their loved ones before ordering her army of Putties, giant Zord like machines, and Ranger Sentries to attack. Whilst the majority of the forces clash in the remains of Angel Grove, Scorpina and Trini fight their way towards Rita whilst Scorpina reminded Kimberly that this alliance was meaningless. It was simply an alliance of convenience and they would return to being mortal enemies with their common enemy was defeated. They then spotted Rita floating in the sky and Scorpina, realising that this mighty be her final battle, admitted that the Coinless had proven to be a worthy enemy but Trini refused the backhanded insult. In the meantime, Goldar is still demolishing buildings and annihilating the Ranger Slayer's army but she calls in Finster-5's creation which turns out to be a hybrid of Lord Zedd, the Dragonzord and a lizard. The Zord is able to almost immediately overpower Goldar, taking him to the ground with an energy blast to the face and beating him to death with its bare hands. With Goldar gone, the battle begins to turn in the favor of the Ranger Sentries. Meanwhile, Scorpina confronted Rita, managing to seal her away once and for all. With their leader gone, the magic keeping the Spirit Sentries in the world of the living ceases to exist and they return to the underworld which saves the Earth for good.

Later that day, the two armies meet up inside Drakkon's palace and Trini tries to force a surrender in exchange for leniency but Scorpina refuses since she was the one supplying the soldiers who allowed for Rita's defeat. Trini then reminds her that they aren't her army which Scorpina rebuts since they were loyal only to Drakkon, not the Coinless and thus this was a means to an end for them in keeping Drakkon's empire secure. Zack tries to leave since all this arguing was just resulting in them spinning their wheels but Scorpina swears personal revenge until Bulk realizes that they needed a new common leader or they'd just tear the Earth apart in their never-ending war. Much to Kimberly's immense surprise, he suggests her as "the next Drakkon" and she tried to suggest he was joking only for the others to agree since the troops see her as Drakkon's successor and are loyal to her since she just won them a major victory. Scorpina is about to object but Finster-5 tells her it might be a good idea to have her as a placeholder of sorts until they could find a better idea. Kimberly tries to refuse it but Scorpina reminds her of her speech from earlier about the greater good and personal needs vs societal needs. However, she does say to Finster-5 that Kimberly needs to look more imperial and he has some ideas about that.

Sometime later, Kimberly was coronated as she says that they had survived an invasion by the dead and that, despite the fact that the Coinless and Ranger Sentries had different methods and allegiances, they both lost loved ones and they all had the goal of the common peace. She decides to forgive all past crimes committed and clean the proverbial slate. The Ranger Sentries now bow to her as she concludes the speech by saying that they had to fight to save the Earth together and that "today is a new beginning." The final page then shows Kimberly in the Ranger Slayer suit on Zedd's giant throne, wearing a Dragon Shield-esque chest plate and a headpiece.

After defeating The Anointed and would assist The Coinless in defeating Drakkon’s Army, that is now commanded by Scorpina. She would prove herself by successfully forming an alliance with Commander Scorpina to defeat a revived Rita Repulsa. After defeating Rita Repulsa, Kim would assume Lord Drakkon’s former role in a figurehead position. Kim’s first mission as leader would be to free all of the prisoners of Deadlock, including an unknown prison clad in armor who is eventually revealed to be Jason Lee Scott. After being ravaged by Eclipta after Jason retrieves the Power Coin and causing the Ranger Sentries to lose their powers, she gives up her own Power Coin so that the entire populace would obtain Morphin’ Grid powers to fight off Eclipta.

Video game appearances

Power Rangers Legacy Wars

Ranger Slayer in Legacy WarsKimberly, as the Ranger Slayer, is a playable character in Power Rangers Legacy Wars.

Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid

Ranger Slayer in Battle for the GridRanger Slayer is one of the characters featured in Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid. She primarily uses her bow as well as arrows and futuristic-looking bombs when she is fighting. She is voiced by Meghan Camarena.

Personality

Kimberly remained the same as her prime counterpart, but her story became far more tragic upon losing her world’s Jason, Billy, and Matthew at the hands of Lord Drakkon. This leads her to decide to work alone for the sake of her friends. Due to being brainwashed with the evil energy in the Bow of Darkness implanted by Drakkon, Kimberly is turned as ruthless as Drakkon. However, the only known remaining good side left in her is sparing the past-present counterpart of Matthew, to make sure he will never die as his World of the Coinless counterpart did.

After her past-present-day counterpart manages to unleash an energy blast that breaks the Bow of Darkness and clears her of her connection to Drakkon's magic and manipulations, she is left shaken and furious at herself for what she did under his influence. She is not truly the monster she was made to be, feeling an immense sense of personal accountability for the things that she was forced to do under the mad ranger's control.

Due to her world's ruined state, she has come to appreciate the small things in life. While spending time with her past alternate counterpart, Kimberly took time to remind her younger self to take time to appreciate life's small trivial pleasures, such as days at her favorite hangouts, the goofiness of her friends, and even high school, as such small things is what the larger battles are fought to protect: the chance to live one's life and not have to fight for it.

Due to having been controlled and manipulated by Drakkon for so long and having lost so many people including Jason, Billy, Matt, and many others, Kimberly defected, explicitly stating her intent to kill Drakkon herself. Due to the subtle undertones of Drakkon's conversation with her prior to the revelation that she is free from him, it is implied that Kimberly was made to be in a relationship with him against her will. Given the depths of Drakkon's madness and depravity, it is quite likely that Kimberly was coerced by him in such a manner.

Ranger Powers

Ranger CostumeThis is Kimberly's original Ranger form as given to her by Zordon through the Power Coin. Zords

Pterodactyl Dinozord

Firebird Thunderzord

Arsenal

Wrist Communicator

Power Morpher

Pterodactyl Power Coin

Blade Blaster

Power Bow

Even though she is using the same Power Coin as her original form, this form has taken on a new appearance.

Arsenal

Power Morpher

Pterodactyl Power Coin

Blade Blaster

Bow of Darkness (Sword of Darkness)

Zords

Gravezord - remains of the Power Rangers zords from the World of the Coinless

Solarix Morphin’ Energy Pterodactyl Zord - A remake of the original MMPR Pterodactyl Zord made completely of energy from the Solarix

Pink Solar RangerArsenal

Energy Bow

Zords

Solarix Morphin’ Energy Pterodactyl Zord - A recreation of her Pterodactyl Zord made completely from the energy of the Solarix

Behind the Scenes

Kyle Higgins described the Ranger as someone we have seen before, but not in this way. The clue to her identity as Kimberly was actually set up and somewhat foreshadowed early in the comics during the Black Dragon Arc.

Four out of five Rangers of the Mighty Morphin team were either dead or de-powered in the World of the Coinless as seen in the story: Jason and Billy were murdered by Lord Drakkon when he first got his fused powers, Zack and Trini had lost their Power Coins to Lord Drakkon but managed to survive as part of the resistance.

Up until the reveal at WonderCon 2018's Boom! Studios panel, readers assumed the Kimberly of the World of the Coinless was killed by Lord Drakkon due to the fact that the Ranger Sentries need the energy of specific Power Coins to be able to morph and her coin's powers were being used by the Pterodactyl Sentries. Adding to this ruse was the fact that Kimberly was never seen, except in flashbacks during "The Fall of the Power Rangers".

Kimberly's Solar Ranger suit was designed by Simone Di Meo.

Notes

This Kimberly shares some similarities as two prime counterparts of Tommy Oliver (original live-action and his 2016 comic book counterpart) (as a Green Ranger), such as being temporarily brainwashed, and began to redeem themselves in return while initially rather work alone for the sake of their friends.

Kimberly, as the Ranger Slayer, is a playable character in Power Rangers Legacy Wars.

She is one of the few rangers named by the accents in her suit instead of the main color, like the Gold Ranger from Power Rangers Zeo.

Kimberly, as the Ranger Slayer, is playable character in Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid. She also has her original MMPR Outfit as a secondary skin, which ironically both as flashback suit and worn by a different counterpart who shares a same character select slot.

Appearances

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios)

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 12

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 15

Go Go Power Rangers Issue 8

Go Go Power Rangers Issue 9

Go Go Power Rangers Issue 10

Go Go Power Rangers Issue 11

Go Go Power Rangers Issue 12

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 29

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 30

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Shattered Grid Finale Issue 1

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 31

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 32

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 33

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 34

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 35

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 36

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 37

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 38

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 39

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 48

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 50

Power Rangers: Ranger Slayer Issue 1

See Also

Kimberly Ann Hart (2016 comic) - prime reality counterpart from the Boom! Studios comic timeline.

References

Pink RangersIdentities

Kimberly • Kat • Cassie • Kendrix • Karone • Dana • Jen • Syd • Vida • Rose • Mia • Emma • Shelby • Sarah • Amelia

Kimberly (alternate continuity 1995) • Kimberly (2016 comic) • Kimberly (alternate continuity 2017) • Chloe • Daniel

Secondary Rangers

Kimberly Putty • Putty • Kristen • Marie • Pink Shadow Ranger • Robo Cassie • Pink Creep

Psycho Pink • Pink Cyborg Ranger • Evil Time Force Pink • A-Squad Pink

Evil Pink Mystic Ranger • Evil Pink Overdrive Ranger

Power Sets

Pink Ranger • Zeo Ranger I Pink • Pink Turbo Ranger • Pink Space Ranger • Galaxy Pink Ranger

Pink Lightspeed Ranger • Time Force Pink Ranger • S.P.D. Pink Ranger • Pink Mystic Ranger

Pink Overdrive Ranger • Pink Samurai Ranger • Megaforce Pink Ranger • Super Megaforce Pink Ranger

Dino Charge Pink Ranger • Ninja Steel Pink

Pink Ranger (1995 movie) • Pink Ranger (2017 movie)

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mateushonrado · 6 years

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Status Post #7289: Boom Studios Red Rangers.

Row 1: Grace Sterling / Red Ranger [MMPR 1969], Jason Lee Scott / Red Ranger [MMPR Boom-GGPR] and Britt / All-New Red Ranger [MMPR: Pink]

Row 2: Rocky DeSantos / Red Ranger [MMPR: Pink] and Jason Lee Scott / Red Ranger [World of the Coinless]

Row 3: Eugene Skullovich / Tyrannosaurus Sentry [World of the Coinless], Lauren Shiba / Red Samurai Ranger [MMPR: Shattered Grid] and Andros / Red Space Ranger [MMPR: Beyond the Grid-Shattered Grid]

Row 4: Trini Kwan / Red Ranger [GGPR] and Ace / Supersonic Red [MMPR - Psychotic]

#power rangers #boom studios power rangers #grace sterling #jason lee scott #britt power rangers #rocky desantos #coinless jason #eugene skullovich #lauren shiba #andros #trini kwan #ace supersonic

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ajgrey9647 · 26 days

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Takes place in the World of the Coinless, pre-Drakkon.

Tommy is Rita's evil Green Ranger and he causes hell for the Rangers and anyone else who gets in his way. When a couple outsiders discover the truth, they too earn his wrath...

Skull is desperate to save Billy but how can he stop someone with Ranger power? Can he and Matt do anything to save their friends and keep their identities safe?

**Goes along with In The Moment/It's All That Matters**

@augment-techs

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ajgrey9647 · 7 months

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Self-soothing prompts: Wrapping themself in a large blanket that makes them feel small and safe. + Coinless Zack?

Pain in Multiples/No One Can Save You But You

His life had changed so dramatically and rapidly that Zack had no time to process the traumatic events as they unfolded. The Black Ranger had stubbornly held on to the big picture once his initial shellshock in the aftermath of Drakkon’s birth had receded. There hadn’t been a choice, really.

The survivors needed him to get his head together, to keep them safe, to formulate some kind of plan to defeat the monster. However, everything he came up with amounted to a suicide mission, their chances of success well in the negative percentile. Which Billy claimed wasn’t empirically possible as his mind scrambled for tight control of whatever it could find and, of course, mathematics and its precise outcomes fit the bill nicely.

Zack barely kept himself from the flashpoint of rage at the silly, pedantic statement, his hand smacking sharply against the assortment of scribbled papers littering the rickety table.

“Obviously, I don’t literally mean we have a -1000% of defeating Lord Drakkon, Billy!” he snapped, hating himself for his irritation even as the words tumbled forth. “I just don’t care for the words ‘certain death’, alright?”

The Blue Ranger retreated back to his tiny cot in the stark, barren room of the abandoned nursing facility like a scolded puppy.

“Oh God, Billy! I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…” the black-clad teen sighed, following his friend’s retreat.

He nestled on the lumpy piece of furniture next to where the blonde genius huddled under a ragged scrap of a blanket, only the wispy top of his golden locks visible.

“No, Zack. I’m the one who should be apologizing… I should have been able to determine a quicker way to infuse Jason with the White Tiger powers. Or invented a way to help fortify the Command Center against breaches. If I had, then Zordon, Alpha, and Jason would still be here,” he sobbed brokenly. “This is all my fault!”

Placing a shaky hand over the tightly bundled fabric, the Black Ranger hissed forcefully.

“That’s not true, man! If anything is anyone’s fault…well, I could have tried harder or looked longer to find Tommy before that son of a bitch hitched himself back with Rita! I could have convinced him his place was with us! Then there would have no need for new powers or any of that other shit!”

Of course, words were hollow in moments such as these.

The icy fingers of blame stretched far and wide, ensnared deep in the darkest parts of each Ranger’s heart. No amount of countering could convince any of them that they did not have a direct hand in the terrible emergence of this homicidal, superpowered dickhead.

Zack already knew full well where Kimberly Hart stood on her role in this nightmarish clusterfuck. Their conversation had gone no better than the one he’d had with the Blue Ranger. Full of rage and vengeance in addition to her bitter tears, the Pink Ranger spit fire as she insisted upon her failure.

“And if I pressed harder on my suspicion that Tommy was the Green Ranger way back before we finally found out, maybe that would have changed things, given us more time, I don’t know! Or if I had been able to get through to him when I confronted him in the Youth Center before the Sword of Darkness was destroyed…” she yelled, kicking violently at a haphazard stack of old wooden crates outside the kitchen.

The tiny girl had been profoundly changed the moment Drakkon’s deadly hands held forth Jason’s blood streaked red Tyranno helmet with its shattered visor. Something broke inside her at seeing the graphic evidence of her beloved big brother’s murder.

Kimberly often awoke in the wee hours of the night, screaming a heartbroken wail that echoed easily down the tiled corridors where the remaining citizens secreted themselves from Drakkon’s Red Sentry army.

“I miss him, Zack! I don’t know how to live without him here, to protect us, guide us… I’d give anything for one more of his big teddy bear hugs right now!” she moaned, her knees giving out and dropping her to the ground. “To hear his voice…”

From a battered canvas bag she kept guarded on her person at all times, her trembling hands pulled out a small, velvety plush dinosaur, it’s black plastic eyes seemingly gazing into their souls, the two small front legs adorned with soft, felt claws.

“Rexy…” Zack gasped in wonderment. “How the hell did you get that? And when? Drakkon’s goons…”

Kim cuddled the T Rex tightly to her chest in defiance.

“Don’t worry about it,” she retorted. “It’s one piece of Jason that motherfucker won’t ever get!”

She breathed deeply of the top of Rexy’s head.

“It still has his smell. I’m afraid of the day that it will be gone too.”

“Kim…”

But the Pink Ranger turned her head away.

“Just leave me alone, Zack… Please…”

As for Trini, she didn’t speak much for quite awhile after the events of Ascension Day, merely staring into space and only doing anything when guided physically by another person to do so. Usually that person was the Black Ranger. Caring for the catatonic girl was one concrete thing he could do to help anything in this godforsaken hellhole.

With his diligence, he’d finally coaxed the start of a few small words from the Yellow Ranger as they sat nibbling a stale piece of bread covered with a swath of crunchy peanut butter to disguise its brittleness.

“Evil won,” she whispered. “Rita…won..”

Zack couldn’t stomach hearing that sentiment.

“No, she didn’t. We’re still here, girl! And we’ll find a way to beat them! Just like we always do!”

But she shook her head, long dark swishing her upper arms.

“Not this time. There’s no going back. He killed them…”

Damn, but those early days were rough. Days? Hell, months to be more accurate.

They were all fortunate to have some time to regroup and rest within the confines of the crumbling facility Bulk had led them to before they’d been flushed out like a nest of fledgling mice into the night. More people were lost in the confusion and chaos… there was no to prevent that with the might of the jackal-like Sentries.

He, along with Kimberly, Billy, Trini, Bulk, and Skull, had managed to herd whoever he could to safety, delivering a series of satisfying blows to the marauders as he did so. Morphing into their respective suits was eerie and horrible without Jason there to call out in his deep, authoritative yell, ‘It’s Morphin’ Time!’ or ‘Tyrannosaurus!’

It was salt in their still fresh wound.

But once again, Zack was unable to take the time to properly mourn or grieve or fully appreciate the gravity of their new rebellious resistance. It felt like a movie or a nightmare or a really bad bout with alcohol… anything but reality. He always half expected to wake up in his bed before school or in the Command Center with his head bandaged or being given some elixir to reverse a spell… only to be depressingly disappointed.

The Black Ranger had not one spare minute, not when there were issues to address such as procuring food, medical equipment, weapons, clothing, or other supplies, finding safe places to hide out, or constructing their new Coinless leadership. Trini seemed to come back to life when this was going on, drawing on tremendous inner strength and determination in their fallen friends’ honor.

They would slay the dragon.

But the spiteful prick inflicted more lethal wounds before they even got that far in their day to day considerations, operating from a primal survival mode as they cared for what people remained of Angel Grove.

Rumor spread that Rita was dead, killed by ‘her’ evil Ranger’s dagger. Whispers swirled throughout what remained of the city where a lavish palace was being constructed even as the surrounding landscape slowly regressed, unnoticed in the wake of Drakkon’s coup. Those with firsthand knowledge described Rita’s final moments, screeching at the tyrant about his ‘careless, short-sighted, and impertinent decision’. No one knew to what she was referring but rather than argue, Drakkon turned toward his Empress, smiled beatifically as he declared his entitlement to a ‘prize from his battle’, and casually drove his blade through her torso.

Death and loss followed the asshole like a contagious disease.

Drakkon took Billy from them, as effortlessly as blowing a girlish kiss, his Red Sentry blasting a gory hole through the Blue Ranger as he stood protectively before Trini, her morpher already yanked from her belt and being twirled in the tyrant’s long fingers. Zack had swooped in then, challenging the dictator after knocking the murderous Sentry from the bluffs overlooking the ocean.

“Well, hello again, Zackary…” Drakkon purred, his helmet slowly roving up and down the Black Ranger’s battle-damaged suit. “Tough breaks, hmmm? Looks like you’re down another Ranger. Too bad little Skullovitch wasn’t here to save his precious boytoy this time.”

“Fuck you, you cowardly piece of shit!” Zack screamed, calling forth his axe. “I’m going to send you back to hell where you came from!”

This bluster only made Drakkon laugh wildly.

“Look around, dumbass… We’re already there.”

A white and gold saber appeared in the tyrant’s gloved hand.

“I’m glad we’ve finally gotten the chance to chat again…I never had the opportunity to regale you with my little convergence of the twain… Jason’s agonizing death when he refused to submit…”

“Shut up!” Zack snarled, swinging the heavy weapon in a wide arc that Drakkon deftly dodged with a combat roll.

Giggling, the evil Ranger slashed his blade through the air in an arrogant display.

“I tried to be merciful, Zackary, for what’s it worth… a quick, painless snap of his neck… like a chicken in a barnyard or a bunny rabbit outside its warren. But he just wouldn’t hold still… until I beat that hard head of his like a punching bag.”

Grinning through his lies, Drakkon wished he could see the Black Ranger’s face as he made up the nastiest details he could imagine.

“I destroyed that disgusting red helmet and he still thrashed around like an animal in a snare, covered in piss when he lost control of his bladder and running into things because his eyeballs ruptured under my fists. It looked like raspberry jelly smeared down his cheeks… But I really thought that crack to his neck did the trick when he dropped like a ton of bricks!”

Roaring in fury, Zack charged again, locking his axe with Drakkon’s sword as the tyrant continued to fib.

“I reached down to take his coin, Black Ranger, and that silky little belly was moving up and down. He was still breathing, crying and begging for his ‘mommy’”, he sneered in disdain. “So, I did the kindest thing I could… I hacked him open and field dressed him like a deer, pulling his guts out while he tried to scream…”

His words were cut off when Zack’s fist collided squarely with the hybridized helmet, knocking Drakkon backward toward the drop off to the turbulent ocean below. The Black Ranger was too enraged to question the tyrant about some of the inconsistences in his gruesome tale, namely that if he had gutted Jason, Drakkon should have been painted with his scarlet blood instead of just what dripped from the Tyranno helmet.

“And Zordon got to witness the whole shameful thing!”

Zack’s vision misted over with tears, the vile meanness of what happened to Jason making him want to vomit. And that was when Drakkon ceased his possumy, demure antics and proceeded to maul the Black Ranger like a pit bull, a stunning about-face that left the teen reeling.

His Mastodon coin was savagely yanked from his belt, depowering him in a flash of crackling black light. Only the sudden interference from Kimberly saved him from a deadly blow by Drakkon’s sword, as the Pink Ranger’s arrow struck the tyrant’s leg, dropping him to one knee.

She’d overheard everything, every vile detail he had had spewed and after seeing Trini cuddling Billy’s mangled corpse in her arms, watching Zack’s helpless struggle, she could no longer hold back.

“You son of a bitch! I’m going to kill you! Gut you just like you did Jason, you sick fuck!” Kim screamed.

Reinforcements arriving vibrated the ground they cowered upon and time was up. At least for now.

Trini dashed into the bracken, her blood-soaked shirt clinging to her upper body and Billy’s Triceratops coin hidden in her bra. Zack foolishly snared Kim’s waist and hauled her off into the woods as Drakkon bellowed in pain, pulling himself to his feet.

He glared after the retreating former Rangers, then lifted his hand, waggling his fingers like a toddler.

“See ya later, alligator!”

The Mastodon and Saber tooth Tiger coins were clutched tightly in his palm, perfect additions for those clamoring for the opportunity to serve in his ranks. He grinned, satisfied he’d supplied enough nightmare fuel to keep Kimberly and Zack awake for years to come.

The loss of his coin, forcefully removed from his body instead of transferred to another, left Zack in the throes of physical withdrawal as he adjusted from the enhancements of the Grid back to a mere mortal human. His skin was clammy, drenched in sweat, and he suffered the shakes to the point he couldn’t even feed himself without help.

Not that it mattered much.

He vomited everything he put in his mouth anyway.

So, ultimately all he could do at that point in time was lay upon a pallet in a ramshackle farmer’s barn somewhere in the countryside, listening to the world go on outside its sun-faded red walls. Unable to get up, or sit up, or speak more than a few words at a time, even that was exhausting.

Zack had the distinct privilege of hearing Kimberly’s loud, enraged cursing, swearing, and threatening all manner of violence upon Lord Drakkon, rebuffing all who attempted to calm her down. Skull curled into a ball somewhere near the cow pasture, wailing and wishing death for himself at the loss of Billy as Bulk tried helplessly to protect him from his own hand.

Eventually, both the Pink Ranger and Eugene disappeared into the night some time down the road. Kim returned as the devil’s right hand warrior and Skull not at all, both to Farkas’s immense grief.

Loss after loss after loss after loss. A whole goddamn mountain of them. And Zack was unable to stem the tide. What more were waiting just around the corner? Who else was going to die?

Zack was still a child himself; they all were. He wished Jason were here because he’d know how to handle things. Then thoughts of his deceased leader coalesced into images of his brutal, bloody murder and then the teen couldn’t sleep for fear of closing his eyes.

He didn’t want to be strong, dammit! He wanted someone to comfort him, to take over, to make decisions, to be a fucking adult, to fix things, right all these impossible wrongs…

But there was no one who could mentally or physically extend themselves to another, as all were as depleted as he was.

So, Zack settled for what he could given the circumstances. He pulled a heavy, old blanket from some unknown room from wherever the fuck they’d ended up now and disappeared into the shadows. Wrapping himself snuggly in the scratchy material, he scrunched into as small a ball as he could manage, feeling like an egg in a nest or an infant being swaddled in his mother’s arms.

And from that cocoon of safety, Zack finally allowed himself to release the agonized tears he’d saved up beginning the day that Jason ‘died’.

#boom! comics power rangers #lord drakkon #world of the coinless jason #power rangers #world of the coinless zack taylor #world of the coinless kimberly hart #world of the coinless trini kwan #world of the coinless billy cranston #self soothing #self comfort #being too strong for too long #loss and grief #sadness

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skyland2703 · 1 year

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fanfic titles prompt: here's to the damned, to the lost, the forgotten + world of the coinless; sentries AND the resistance fighters

Why are titles and summaries prompts so easy and nice and sweet to do sbdnnsnndns Anyway

Title: Here’s to the damned, to the lost, the forgotten

Rating: G

Characters: World of the Coinless Eugene Skullovitch, World of the Coinless Farkas Bulkmeier, World of the Coinless Zack Taylor, World of the Coinless Trini Kwan, World of the Coinless Kimberly Hart | Ranger Slayer, World of the Coinless Scorpina

Additional Tags: Adam died; yes Adam died, angst, major character death, off screen character death, canon compliant, post canon, PAIIIINNNN, trauma, fluff

Summary: In the aftermath of the invasion by Eclipta’s forces, the injured, the not so injured, and the almost dead, all the “Shattered” sat in the infirmary, together.

And Finster was bringing them all cookies and milk and whatever else they wanted, like they were all little kids who were getting a treat for doing well in a class play.

“How was piloting a megazord like, Skullovitch?” Zack asked, laughing, “enjoyed?”

“Oh, oH HECK yess” the zord had collapsed on him, he was half paralysed, and staring at the ceiling with a strap around his neck, but laughing till his eyes watered.

“It was CRAZY!” Bulk roared from another corner, getting up in excitement, but immediately falling back down wincing in pain, but still laughing,

“All the time we had” Kim panted, she was probably one of the least injured, but with a blade right to the collarbone, it was hard for her to speak “it’s really not so bad.”

“Here’s to the ones that stayed, and to the ones that couldn’t make it with us” Trini smiled, ruefully, “I mean, it’s all really nice, but…” she looked over to where Scorpina sat, her back towards the room, looking out of the window as a nurse bandaged her.

The room fell into silence, the light mirth from moments ago fading, as the weight of their loss settled in once again.

Then Scorpina turned around, probably reading the room, tears barely held back in her eyes, and she smiled, “I don’t— care… at all. It’s really not so sad. Despite the reservations you idiots had”

#power rangers #boom! comics power rangers #mighty morphin power rangers #world of the Coinless #Kimberly hart #eugene skullovitch #farkas bulkmeier #Zack Taylor #Scorpina #Adam park

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skyland2703 · 3 years

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We set the world in motion//By reaching out for each others hand; (Eye to Eye, A Goofy Movie Soundtrack); just out of my sheer curiosity, shall we try a little Coinless Zack and whomever you like?

SONGFIC TIME!! (This one REALLY got out of hand!)

[AO3]

Coinless Zack is best paired with Trini!! They’ve gone through a LOT together… so let’s start! (I read shattered Grid a while back, soooo forgive me if I get any details wrong)

BY THE END THINGS ARE GONNA MAKE LESS SENSE I WRITE ON AN EMOTIONAL LEVEL WITH ZERO BETA IM SORRY T_T

Got myself a notion

One I know you'll understand

Zack Taylor, the leader of the Coinless, the resistance against the rule of the psychopath despot, Drakkon, and the last wall of opposition, that stood between Drakkon ruling the entire planet, was a tired man.

At only thirty two, he had seen the worst of the world. The amount of pain and suffering that he had gone through, he wouldn’t even wish it upon an enemy… Okay, ONE enemy. A certain man who had been the real reason for every single one of them.

And there was one person, who had been by his side, all along. They were friends, had been, long before everything went to hell. She had been one of his best friends in primary school, and now, she was the Leader of the Coinless, with him. They had come a long, long way. She had cried at every funeral, with him, smiled at every victory, shared every scar, bore every betrayal, and still stood by him, solid as a rock, as he prepared a plan to infiltrate into the Despot’s palace, and steal Ninjor back, for some extra help to defeat him, and save the entire multiverse… because Drakkon had finally set his evil gaze upon it.

But before he planned to go on what everyone accepted, was a complete suicide mission, there was something in his mind, something he wanted to tell her, and had wanted to tell her for a long time.

And he knew that this wasn’t the right time…

But Zack was afraid that he didn’t have much time left. And he knew she would understand, even if she didn’t reciprocate.

Set the world in motion

By reaching out for each other's hands

She sat beside him, engrossed completely in the map of the palace, that their spy, a certain red sentry had obtained, while risking his life, trying to figure out what would be the best strategy. They had a few extra hands for this mission, one of them being a version of Zack from a universe where all their friends were alive, where Drakkon never existed, a world… that was more or less Utopia when seen from the perspective of hell.

Zack knew this was a facade, though, Trini was actually trying to hold back tears, because she and Zack had been together so long, they had forgotten what it felt like to be apart. He remembered promising her, once, long ago, when Kim had turned to the dark side, that if they go, they’d go together.

“I won’t leave you alone, if you promise to never leave me”

This was a suicide mission, like everyone said, but Zack had promised to himself, and to her, that he’d come back, not for himself, but for HER SAKE. She wasn’t going on the mission, because, for strategic purposes, there was someone who needed to stay behind, and lead the resistance. But he knew that if he didn’t return, he’d break her promise, he’d leave her alone, in this cruel twisted nightmare of a world… all alone.

Planning could wait.

He took her hand, and she didn’t recoil, instead, she lifted her gaze to look into his eyes. In there, he saw tears, barely being held back…

The world was set in motion.

Maybe we'll discover

What we should've known all along (yeah)

“We should’ve known it all along, no?” he asked, and she looked surprised, “That you’ll have to leave?”

“No…” that was the only thing that had been on her mind, wasn’t it? It was about time he decided to change that.

One way or another

Together's where we both belong

“I didn’t want you to tell you this way, but Trini, I’m afraid if I wait any longer, I won’t be able to tell you at all” she still looked at him in mild confusion, not knowing where he was planning to go with this.

“One way or another… I’m telling you tonight… Please don’t hate me"

“I— I can never hate you, Zack!!” She leapt up, and hugged him tightly.

Here it comes, Zack thought, as he ran his hand through her hair, and kissed her cheek, before whispering in her ear, “I love you…”

She seemed to have frozen in place, and Zack closed his eyes, the last thing he wanted to go was make her uncomfortable with him, on the last night they had together. By sundown the next day, he’d be on his way to infiltrate the castle.

“Oh… Oh Zack” she sobbed into his shoulder, “I love you too, Zack… I do, I so do” her voice was shaking, as she said the words.

XXX

[Chorus:]

If we listen to each other's hearts

We'll find we're never too far apart

She was quiet, as was he, with her head resting on his chest, and his hands sifting through her soft, dark hair, she could hear his heart beat. He was so close, just so close to her, that it hurt to know he wouldn’t be the next day. But he had promised, oh he had promised! He’d be there, she thought to herself, she let herself believe against all odds, that she’d see him again, if not tomorrow, if not for weeks, one day, one day she’ll see him again. He won’t leave her…

She and Zack had never been apart, in more than twenty five years! She felt like she had known him since forever, and though a most of it was more platonic in the beginning, she had loved him forever too.

Tommy had turned into Drakkon, Billy had died, Jason had died, Zordon and Alpha had died, Matt died, Kim turned evil, Bulk had almost lost it, (hadn’t they all? But he was better now) Skull was sent as an undercover spy to the Fortress, and had gone through god knows how much trauma.

But she and Zack had never been too far apart. From pre-schoolers in the same nursery, to high-schoolers in the same economics class, to Power Rangers on the same team, to leaders of the Coinless in this apocalyptic world… Zack had been the one constant in her life.

“I will still be here” he whispered, as if reading her mind, knowing just what to say…

“I may not be here, in person, but I will always be with you”

& Maybe love is the reason why

For the 1st time ever we're seeing it eye to eye

And for the first time, Trini did not have to make an effort to believe his words. She had been in love with him for almost as long as he had, and right now, in this moment where the entire universe seemed paused for them, and them only, for the first time, the two could see it eye to eye.

Their love for each other had been hidden for so long... it was finally there, right in front of them...

And don’t they say, that where there’s love, nothing can tear us apart?

Trini clung on to Zack, holding him as close as she could; he echoed the emotion, with soft kisses on her forehead, and their soft breaths coalesced.

If a wall should come between us

Too high to climb

Too hard to break through

The night ended, the day dawned, planning ensued, strategies followed. All day, the entire ranks of the Coinless, did whatever little they could, to make sure their leader’s mission would be a success. Some volunteered to take up responsibilities on the field, some stayed behind, those who couldn’t do anything prayed to their gods, and no one, absolutely no one, spoke of the possibility of the mission going bad.

They couldn’t take that chance... they couldn’t even dare to *think* of it being real... because if that happened, they would all have lost their decade long war.

And then the time of the mission came... the soldiers left almost without saying goodbye, because they knew their loved ones (the ones who still lived anyway) wouldn’t be able to take it.

Zack left Trini a note.

She never opened it.

And then hours later, the news had come… The deadly fire, the battle, and the fact that their spy’s cover had been blown… They had grieved, all of them, all of the Coinless.

But everyone felt that a few minutes of pin drop silence, a memorial service, and a quasi funeral for the fallen heroes, was definitely not enough… it never would be enough.

Revenge was the call of the moment, and Trini knew that destroying Drakkon was the only way to ever bring peace to the dead.

On a personal level though, she felt like she was broken… With Zack, the only person who had never left her side, gone, she knew she was alone. Bulk understood, of course, the two often spent time sharing each other’s tears over the loss of all their friends, but no one could quite take his place.

They were parted, they were not together anymore, everything was… gone. Just like that.

The fire that was in Trini Kwan’s mind, fuelled by this unfortunate series of events, wasn’t going to go waste… She made sure of that.

They were the Coinless, but they weren’t the Powerless

I know that love will lead us

& Find a way to bring me to you

But at night, the memory would return. The memory of that one night she had intimately spent with Zack, and the memories of the countless nights they had spend together working on schemes, strategies, ways to get their friends back, ways to defeat their enemy… A way to escape into the world they had left behind.

The night before the great battle, the one she was spending in the command centre, (oh that sweet command centre before it became a dwelling of the ghosts) of the “normal world” a world where Drakkon had never taken over, a world where all her friends were still alive… she talked to Billy, she talked to Kim, she talked to Jason and her own younger self! None of them had gone through half the amount of trauma that she and her team had… They still had a bit of hope left in them, they still believed in a better future.

It was Billy who had advised her to open the letter. She still had it after all this time, after all. Trini had almost tried not to break down at the idea of having a beyond-the-grave communication with Zack, but since it was Billy, the adorable little brother of a boy, who she had loved more than herself, before he was so cruelly taken away from them… she listened to him.

“It’s not good-bye… I’ll find a way to come back to you”

That’s all the note said. Trini couldn’t stop her tears anymore.

So don't be in a hurry

Think before you count us out (oohh)

All the reassurances and promises in the world wouldn’t have been enough to make her believe in resurrection… But those thirteen words did.

You don't have to worry

I won't ever let you down

Nothing's gonna stop us now

Zack Taylor had always been true to his word, he had always believed in keeping his promises, and if he had given it to her in writing… Trini had no doubt that he’d be back.

Miracles weren’t impossible. Right now, she was standing, in an intact command centre, with versions of her friends, Zordon, Alpha, everyone, alive, on the verge of battle, surrounded by over three decades of generations of Power Rangers, all following in the legacy and footsteps of her team.

Yeah. Miracles were real, and she knew he’d be there. Nothing could stop them anymore. He had never let her down, and even in death, he had promised he wouldn’t.

She would never be lonely… Because he’d be always there with her…

If you're ever lonely stop!

You don't have to be

After all this slowly

I'll be there for just you & me

Take a look inside & see

I'll be there for just you & me….

[END.]

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(A/N that Coinless Zack and Trini do not consider Tommy as a part of their friend circle, never did. It’s a foreign concept to them. So they don’t really relate to Tommy’s death in normal universe as the other rangers do)

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